Good one David, you have made my day! I am nominating you for the Answer
of the Month Award.
;--))
Geoff
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P.S. Is it true that Linus Torvalds was one of Linus Pauling's friends too?
On 23/02/2022 6:50 am, David Carlson wrote:
It is not a secret location known only to Linus Pauling and a few of his
friends.
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.
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