[GNC] Correct environment variables for Linux?

[Klaus Dahlke]

Hi Dan,
I prefer to save my data at the end of the day resp. at logout. The .bash_logout script copies the gnucash file(s) to an NFS directory offered by a  a raspberrypi-type computer serving as back-up server. Thus, the main gnucash-file(s) remains as-is and the up-to-date backup is on another hard- drive, even on a different computer. You can even think of copying resp rsyncing the file(s9 to a web-storage if the gnucash data file itself is not too large.

Btw: I use the sql backend, and at shutdown the gnucash database is dumped and zip to a local file on a separate hard disk than the main disk and then copied to the other nfs-server. The database covers about 20 years of just private transactions nad has ~66MB, but the compressed dump has only 6.6MB, so easy to copy.

Best regards,
Klaus 



On Fri, 01 Jan 2021 11:04:12 +0000
Dan Ståhlberg via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> My New Years resolution was to finally create a better backup strategy for my GnuCash files. In order to achieve this, the GnuCash files and directories need to be on another disk and GnuCash environment variables need to point to this directory.
> Following recommendations on the Wiki I have made a Linux bash shell startscript for GnuCash. But GnuCash seems to start up fresh everytime, with initial opening questions and suggestions and no recent files??? I am using Ubuntu 20.04, bash and GnuCash "3.8b+".
> 
> Can anyone help me to see if the environment variables are set correctly?
> 
> Thanks in advance and Happy New Year to all!
> Dan
> 
> startup script file (Bash shell):
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> #
> 
> # Setup GnuCash environment and start GnuCash with Swedish sort order but English menus
> 
> # https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
> 
> # https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Directories
> 
> #
> 
> # 2021-01-01 Dan Ståhlberg
> 
> TOP=/bigd/workarea/ekonomi/gnucash/2021
> 
> export HOME=$TOP
> 
> export XDG_DATA_HOME=$TOP/.local/share
> 
> export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$TOP/.config
> 
> LC_COLLATE=sv_SE.UTF-8 gnucash
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