Backup and recovery

[david.carlson.417@gmail.com]

    Alaric,
If you follow Colin's logic and carefully watch the suffix on the filenames you should be able to open a file that contains all of your accounts and as many of your recent transactions in those accounts as your previous procedures were able to retain.  You should not be getting only your accounts without any transactions at all.  If that is what appears to be happening, look into other issues involving dates to try to track down your problem.
David C
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------ Original message------From: Colin LawDate: Sat, Dec 19, 2015 3:57 AMTo: Alaric;Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org;Subject:Re: Backup and recovery
On 18 December 2015 at 23:15, Alaric  wrote:> I back up every two or three days using a frontend to rsync.  I have never> had any problem before.  I have a display problem which has involved regular> re installs of the distro and each time I copy the backed up files to my> Documents directory.  I have always previously been able to open the file> using the main name assigned to the set of accounts when I set it up.If you have backed up regularly then you should still have theaccounts files from all those backups.  Can you not recover the filesfrom older backups?  Even if you have lost them the most recent backupshould have your .gnucash file and all the automaticbackups from the last 30 days which are.gnucash.datetime.gnucash.  It is possible that youraccounts file does not end in .gnucash (depending what you originallysaved it as) in which case the backups will be.datetime.gnucash.  The datetime is obviously thelong number yyyyddmmhhmmss.Colin_______________________________________________gnucash-user mailing listgnucash-user at gnucash.orghttps://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user-----Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.