[GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 233, Issue 34

[Adrien Monteleone]

If I'm not mistaken, Mint has a backup utility. So you can just set it 
up and make sure the GnuCash locations noted in the Wiki and Guide are 
included in the paths to be backed up.

Regards,
Adrien

On 8/10/22 9:29 PM, davidcousens49 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> James
> 
> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html
> 
> The info https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations is also useful
> for backing up user preferences and things like customized reports.
> 
> To back up to a USB drive on Linux Mint, the drive should appear in the file
> manager (icon that looks like a filing cabinet folder in the LH panel of the
> Menu) once you have plugged it in and it is mounted. Navigate to andelect the
> folder containing the data file Ctr-c to copy it. Navigate to the USB hard drive
> and select a suitable directory to keep your backups in on the Hard drive and
> Ctrl-v to paste a copy there (or use the Edit items in the menu).
> 
> How to do actually backups is an operating system issue and not really a GnuCash
> issue. Gnucash's internal backup, logfiles and restore capability are primarily
> about recovering from a datafile corrupted by a GnuCash program crash, rather
> than general computer failures like a hard disk failure.  There are any number
> of articles on general computer backup strategies on the internet depending on
> the facilities you have available and how much you want to spend setting it up.
> A good practice is at least a backup to another local device in your home  (USB
> disk, NAS, another computer) and a backup to an offsite facility to protect you
> if your house burns down for example (USB stick kept by a relative ot cloud
> facility)
> 
> On Linux you can create "cron" jobs to schedule automatic backups if this is
> useful. For example I backup critical files to a cloud storage as well as local
> network storage on my LAN automatically daily and synchronize files between my
> laptop and desktop with Unison whenever they are connected so there are always
> multiple copies of my most recent datafile. My NAS is separately backedp up to
> cloud storage.