Backup help

[John Ralls]

> On Sep 20, 2017, at 1:35 AM, DaveC49 <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Colin,
> 
> i agree with both you and Bram there. It is not a reliable backup of the
> database but really only useful for sharing a database across several
> machines and worked well for the use case where my laptop was generally
> connected to my LAN and I worked away from home occasionally.  haven't had
> any experience with how it copes with simultaneous access and locking
> issues.  There is also the MYSQL Cluster as another approach. You also need
> to check that the replication is up to date and completed before assuming
> the databases are identical.  I use a cron job and mysqldump to dump  the
> databases  to an NAS for backup.

Um, wouldn’t it be easier to just use one of the machines as a server and connect to it with GnuCash from the other machines?

Regards,
John Ralls