Backup and recovery

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 12/18/2015 9:16 PM, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> On 12/18/2015 04:30 PM, Dorel Ciornei wrote:
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> I do a full backup of almost my entire system every night to an external
> USB-3 hard drive. I do a full backup of almost my entire system every
> week onto magnetic tape that I keep in another room from where my
> computer is. I do a full backup of almost my entire system every week
> onto magnetic tape that I keep in my safe deposit box at my bank.
THIS is an example of doing backup (although using obsolescent 
technology, since a modern external hard drive the size of one computer 
tape cartridge holds FAR more data and could rotate one to the other 
room, bank vault, etc. ---- I keep a second copy in a fire box inside a 
dead fridge in an outbuilding.).

You have LOTS of user data on your computer system besides gnucash data. 
Rather silly to have each application responsible for backing up the 
data with which it is associated. You wouldn't expect your word 
processor to be doing the backups for the documents it created, would you?

The backups made by gnucash are really intended for use with problems a 
short time back (since the last full data backup). If you are not doing 
regular backups then sooner or later you will lose your data. It's not 
if computers fail but when. If you do not have a "tech support" to do 
your data backups and restores then you have to learn how to do it 
yourself. Part of successfully using a computer.

Michael