Hi all, For reasons that are complicated but not especially interesting, I would like to run Gnucash on one machine, with the data file located on a remote machine — with the added challenge that the network access available to the Gnucash "client" machine is a terrible cellular data connection that sometimes drops without warning.
I have daily backups, so I don't need strong guarantees against data loss, but if it's possible, I'd like to set things up so there's reasonable resilience against a network dropout corrupting the remote Gnucash data. I'm not the only user with access to the data, so (given that multi-user is still a long way off), I need file locking to work. Having to manually delete an orphaned lock file after a network dropout is acceptable. I assume that any of the database server backends would include this kind of resilience "out of the box", and I'm not entirely unwilling to try my hand at setting that up, but I am by no means a qualified database administrator. If I can get sufficient resilience by easier means, I'd prefer to stay away from the whole database server thing. What about Sqlite over sshfs? I realize Sqlite is not designed for access to a database residing on a different machine, but my inexpert impression is that its "atomic commit" implementation should protect against sudden disconnection between the program and the storage medium just like it protects against sudden power loss. (IE the transaction that's in the midst of being written will be lost, but the database should be fine.) Can anyone confirm whether it's reasonable to expect that Gnucash with Sqlite backend over sshfs would have working locking and decent resilience against data corruption in this scenario? Or point out any obvious "gotcha" I'm missing? Cheers! -Chris _______________________________________________ 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.