[GNC] How to start a new GC file for a new year?

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 3/22/2020 2:42 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> A technique which has been mentioned in the past but not recently is to
> designate a backup file copy made at the same time as the year end reports
> as the final copy for the year.  This could  be manually marked read only
> by your file manager software.
>
> David Carlson
>
And you might burn a copy of that to write once medium for safe storage 
off site as part of backup procedures.

I tend to copy the YE file to a name for the new year, mark the old one 
read only (assuming your OS provides for this) to have the "on site" 
backup. Yes, and send a copy to safe keeping off site << in 2006 had a 
house fire, one room burned but smoke damage made most backups 
unreadable -- all unreadable by us, but our insurance included "data 
recovery" coverage, and the date recovery specialists were able to read 
about 50% of them >>

Michael D Novack

PS: I do NOT mean doing an individual off site backup of just gnucash 
data. There is a lot more data on the computer that goes onto off site 
medium. At today's prices you might forget about burning to DVD as you 
can drives under $100 that would hold all your YE user data in one fell 
swoop. For organizations I was still burning copies to be able to give 
one to another organizational officer, simple "good practice". Now I 
just attach the file and send it leaving up to them to decide how to keep.