At Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:29:10 -0400 james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: > > On 08/31/17 13:35, Matthew Pounsett wrote: > > On 31 August 2017 at 13:33, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> > > wrote: > > > >> > >> While these solutions will work most of the time they all have the same > >> risk: > >> if the snapshot is made while gnucash is updating the db, you end up with > >> an > >> inconsistent db file. I don't know how well sqlite3 handles this so the > >> risk > >> may be high or low. > >> > >> I've done a few spot-checks for consistency and never run into a problem. > > I don't know this for certain, but it looks as if GnuCash is wrapping each > > update in a transaction. If it is doing that, it would ensure that the > > data written to disk is never inconsistent. > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > > Since my company is small, I'm sticking with the legacy gnu system, for > now. That's the permanently offline system I'm in the process of > migrating too. > > Is anyone basically using a USB stick for all records? If so, can you > just plug that USB stick into any of several different (but same version > of gnucash), make changes and store all records on a usb 2 or 3 device? > Then copy usb-stick for backups?
Should be possible. A USB stick is just another file system. There is no *set-in-stone* reason gnucash's data *has* to be the local system disk. A given version of Gnucash should behave the same on any number of different systems. Generally, the *preferences* (including saved reports) would be local to each system (since they live in $HOME). You might need to use the File->Open menu item to open the data file. > > Like others, I am curious to track the database progress, as well as > running gnucash on a cluster. > > > Anyone running many instances of GNUcash on containers, alpine or just > a bunch of VMs? I'd be most interested in those experiences too. > Projects of such multiplicative offerings of gnucash I could follow? I have a desktop Linux machine (CentOS 6, x86_64) and a laptop Linux machine (also 6, x86_64). Generally I run GnuCash (2.4.15-4.el6) on my desktop Linux machine. I do have a procedure (shell script) to rsync the GnuCash data & prefs onto my laptop on occasion, I run GnuCash (also 2.4.15-4.el6) there and then rsync the GnuCash data & prefs back to my desktop Linux machine. I don't know if this counts towards what you are asking. > > James > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services hel...@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.