[GNC] Restoring backups

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 4/5/2019 7:48 PM, Fuchs Ira wrote:
> Conversely, if I move the current .gnucash to another machine that only has this file (and gnucash app) and open it, I don't see any recent transactions (only transactions from several years ago when I last used this test machine). Does the .gnucash file not contain everything? Put another way, how would I migrate the current state (or an earlier state) to another machine?

Probably my biggest "coup" in the aftermath of recovering from a 
"restored the wrong backup" disaster << in one of the world's largest 
financial companies >> was introducing UNIQUE file names. The uniqueness 
was the date assigned to the run << not the "clock date" -- so if 
assigned to run for 19901207 didn't become 19901208 if the job ran after 
midnight >> This was automated (that was the big deal) but you can do 
the same thing manually.

When you make backups, don't use the same name << which isn't changing>> 
but when you copy say ..... mybooks.gnucash to the backup device 
immediately rename it to say .....mybooks20190406.gnucash   Then all 
your backups on the backup device will have a unique name and you will 
know which you are restoring << or which you are opening to view old data >>

Michael D Novack

PS -- I backup ALL of my user date, not file by file. If you do THAT you 
don't have to rename individual folders and files. You just create a 
directory unique to the backups << name like ...backups20190406 >> and 
that's where you copy all of your user data.