Backup help

[Klaus Dahlke]

I use gnucash on linux with postgres as the database. Usually, I shutdown/switch-off my PC during night time. I have a shutdown script that a) dumps all databases do a second harddrive and then b) copies them to an USB stick attached to a raspberrypi in the network. If someone doesn't switch off her/his computer often a cron script running at night could do the same. 

For other data I sync certain directories to an encrypted file system on Dropbox. But don't want to do that for the gnucash database (37 MB).

Cheers,
Klaus



On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 08:58:24 +0100
Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just to point out that database replication might not be considered a
> good form of backup. It copes with something like a disc crash but if,
> for example, a user or bug were accidentally to delete large sections
> of the db then that deletion would be copied to the slave database.
> Unless I misunderstand how replication works.
> 
> Colin
>