[GNC] screwed up my cash acount

[Kalpesh Patel]

See https://storware.eu/blog/grandfather-father-son-gfs-backup/ for very popular backup scheme. I advocate backing up the entire system - not just bits here and bytes there. Even with modern electronics in the hard drives (spinning platter ones or the solid state ones), they normally fail to tell you in time when they go bad and believe me they do go bad.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> 
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2025 12:59 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

On 1/13/2025 12:37 PM, bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user wrote:
> ok mark,
>
> how do you make a backup in gnucash?  extremely new to it.  Thank you

How do you make a backup of all the other user data on your computer? 
<<some day your drive will die>> You should not be looking at different backup of user data from each application. You want a GENERAL back-up procedure.

You have a lot of decisions to make. How often will your data be backed up? To what will the data be backed-up, the cloud? An external drive? If the latter, a second copy sent offsite?

The point I am making is that if you are backing up ALL of your user data, you don't need something specific to gnucash (gnucash user data just a special case with "all")

There are TWO fundamental kinds of back-up, all as of some date/time and "incremental" (every time a file is changed). The latter takes less space but will require software. The former you can even do manually.

Michael D Novack