What backup software did you decide to use Chris? I’ve written some scripts to backup my Gnucash files, but have been looking at a more comprehensive solution.
Michael On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 3:02 AM Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 07:25:33PM -0700, John Ralls wrote: > > > Tried that with GnuCash? It isn't a macOS native app and probably > doesn't > > > benefit from those features. I'd go for the UPS, but since recent > financial > > > activity is generally pretty easy to recover and re-enter maybe the > risk/payback > > > works out differently for you. > > > > > I run incremental backups of all the important data one my system, > > in particular I run hourly incremental backups of my 'home' directory > > (I use Linux) and this contains just about everything of significance. > > > > Thus I can never lose more than an hour's work and, if I want to go > > back to an earlier situation it's easy. Since they're incremental > > backups if nothing changes then no extra space is consumed (except for > > a little overhead). > > > > Thus, on a separate drive, on my desktop system I have the following > > backups:- > > day-2 day-4 day-6 hour-1 hour-2 hour-4 hour-6 hour-8 week-1 > week-3 week-5 > > day-1 day-3 day-5 day-7 hour-10 hour-3 hour-5 hour-7 hour-9 > week-2 week-4 > > > > On a separate system, out in the garage well away from the house, I > > have another 'layer' of incremental backups at longer intervals (day, > > month, year) going back several years. > > > > -- > > Chris Green > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > 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 [email protected] 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.
