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[Adrien Monteleone]

Mario,

The wiki describes all locations used by GnuCash for each OS. You can 
use that info to fine tune your backups.

Regards,
Adrien

On 2/22/22 11:49 AM, Mario Nigrovic wrote:
> Many years ago, I had used gnucash, and was pretty happy with it. I was
> very careful to make regular backups of my data, and so, when my disk
> inevitably crashed, I was not too worried. However, I was mortified to
> discover that, although all my transaction data had been saved, all my
> custom reports were lost, as they had been stored separately in a secret
> undisclosed location, I later discovered to be elsewhere in my home
> directory.
> 
> Recently, I have decided to try again to use gnucash, but I would like very
> much to ensure ALL my data is backed up. So I hit upon the idea of running
> the tool under a custom value of $HOME, but I was then shocked to discover
> that even with this method, gnucash was able to remember previous locations
> of my database file, which suggests that the tool is also using some kind
> of other mechanism to save historical data, and that makes me very nervous
> about actually being able to do proper backups of everything related to the
> tool.
> Doing some sleuthing using strace, I was able to find the previous database
> location delivered through some socket connection, and that really scares
> me, since it is now possible critical data is stored via some other Linux
> service and I will have no way to trace out where this may be to avoid
> future nasty surprises.
> I have not seen any documentation about backup strategies other than the
> aromatic saving of previous data files, yet I do see that there was data
> being stored at least in ~/.local, so I'm hoping someone on this list may
> be able to point me to some more thorough discussion of ALL the places user
> data from gnucash may be stored.