Backups when original is on encrypted volume, how?

[Jeff Earickson]

John,

Thank you for the quick reply.  The File->Open option after the message
failure worked just fine.  Yippee, restored data.

I was going thru the exercise of "I'm dead, my wife needs to recover the
financial data".  She does not know the password to the encrypted volume,
but she does know where the backup thumbdrive is, and the fact that the
data on it is not encrypted.  So I need to make sure that the backed-up
data can really be accessed.  Now I know that she can recover the data.
Now, as long as the thumbdrive does not get lost...

I'm not only paranoid, I am morbid too. :)

Jeff Earickson

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:19 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> > On Jan 1, 2015, at 8:58 AM, Jeff Earickson <jaearick at colby.edu> wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I am paranoid, so I keep my Gnucash files on an encrypted Mac OS volume.
> > To use Gnucash, I unplug the Ethernet cable, decrypt the volume, go do my
> > Gnucash work, unmount the volume.
> >
> > Before unmounting the volume, I have been saving my Gnucash folder to a
> > thumbdrive as a backup.  I have discovered that the backup does not work
> > unless the encrypted volume is mounted.  With no encrypted volume, I get
> > the message "The file file:///Volumes/encrypted/gnucash/mydata.gnucash
> > could not be found."
> >
> > How do I make a backup of my Gnucash data so that a restore will work
> when
> > the original volume is gone?  Does the .gnucash directory in my homedir
> > factor into how this works?
>
> I keep my books on an encrypted volume, too, but I don't unplug the
> ethernet when I'm using it. That would make it hard to get price quotes and
> to download transactions.
>
> Anyway, the error sounds like the expected startup message when Gnucash
> can't find the last-used file. You can either rename the thumb drive's
> volume to "encrypted" (use Disk Manager, IIRC you'll have to reformat the
> volume) and put a gnucash directory on it with mydata.gnucash so that when
> it's mounted the path to mydata.gnucash is the same or you can just use
> File>Open to navigate to myfile.gnucash on the existing thumb-drive path.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>