How safe is GnuCash?

Dean Gibson gnucash.stuff at mailpen.com
Sat Jan 14 01:59:41 EST 2017


I don't want to start another discussion about the data store being 
SQL-based, but it certainly makes external auditing easier, I'd think.

I thought I've had reading all this, is if gnucash could package each 
year's data into a separate file, and then read them as necessary to to 
view (or possibly change) older data.  Properly done:

 1. This would help performance.
 2. The older files, once audited, could be securely backed up
    separately, and then compared as needed to their peers still in
    use.  It would make detecting prior year changes trivial.

Secure backups, once audited, are key component of the idea, it seems to me.

Just a wild idea.  And quite a bit of work.

Less work would be generating a secure hash or checksum of each years data.

-- Dean



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