Questions Regarding Backup and Stopping Gnucash

[David Carlson]

On 9/24/2013 11:31 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I agree. Thanks Mark
> On Sep 24, 2013 8:28 AM, "Steven Stern" <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It seems to me that if the auto-save option is enabled as "Yes, Always",
>> then unless you did something at 2:58AM everything's already saved, so
>> there's no need to close the program before backing up.
>>
>> On 09/22/2013 05:58 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>>> I run gnucash on a Debian laptop. I set up a cron job to copy the gnucash
>>> folder to an external NAS and my google drive as backups. So far
>> everything
>>> is working correctly.
>>>
>>> My questions:
>>>
>>> * I understand that gnucash reads the entire data file into memory. When
>> is
>>> the data written out again? My concern is if I forget to close gnucash
>> and
>>> the backup script runs, have I lost the updates for that day? I don't
>> mean
>>> lost as in gone, just they will not be in the backup for that day, but
>> will
>>> be in the backup for the next day.
>>>
>>> * What would be a good way to shut down gnucash from my backup script so
>> it
>>> saves all the data before the backup is run? I usually shutdown gnucash
>>> before I go to bed (the cron job runs at 3 am), but sometimes I forget. I
>>> am a little worried that killing the gnucash process may not be the best
>>> way to shut it down.
>>>
>>
>>
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Time to jump in:  I don't know if you have a cat, but mine will
sometimes walk across the keyboard, so I need to verify that she did not
edit something before I close GnuCash.

David C