[GNC] I'm still a bit confused about when things get saved.

[Fross, Michael]

What backup software did you decide to use Chris? I’ve written some scripts
to backup my Gnucash files, but have been looking at a more comprehensive
solution.

Michael

On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 3:02 AM Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 07:25:33PM -0700, John Ralls wrote:
>
> > Tried that with GnuCash? It isn't a macOS native app and probably
> doesn't
>
> > benefit from those features. I'd go for the UPS, but since recent
> financial
>
> > activity is generally pretty easy to recover and re-enter maybe the
> risk/payback
>
> > works out differently for you.
>
> >
>
> I run incremental backups of all the important data one my system,
>
> in particular I run hourly incremental backups of my 'home' directory
>
> (I use Linux) and this contains just about everything of significance.
>
>
>
> Thus I can never lose more than an hour's work and, if I want to go
>
> back to an earlier situation it's easy.  Since they're incremental
>
> backups if nothing changes then no extra space is consumed (except for
>
> a little overhead).
>
>
>
> Thus, on a separate drive, on my desktop system I have the following
>
> backups:-
>
>     day-2  day-4  day-6  hour-1   hour-2  hour-4  hour-6  hour-8 week-1
> week-3  week-5
>
>     day-1  day-3  day-5  day-7  hour-10  hour-3  hour-5  hour-7  hour-9
> week-2  week-4
>
>
>
> On a separate system, out in the garage well away from the house, I
>
> have another 'layer' of incremental backups at longer intervals (day,
>
> month, year) going back several years.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Chris Green
>
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