Questions Regarding Backup and Stopping Gnucash

[Mark Phillips]

Good point. Alas, no cats in my home and no young fingers either.

My middle daughter did disassemble my laptop when she was 5 while I was
getting ready to leave for a key customer presentation. She ate keys, and I
had the best intro to any presentation since then. It all worked out ok for
both of us.

Mark
On Sep 24, 2013 10:33 AM, "David Carlson" <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
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