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@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 > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
