On 2023-06-28 13:21, David Carlson wrote: > James, > > When your computer fails, your data will be gone unless you, by your own > volition, have made a special plan to back up your data to a safe and > proper external location. Nobody here can tell you if you made a proper > choice. That also goes for all the other data on your computer. ...> There is no backup in GnuCash.
And let us be clear, it's not GnuCash's job to do a backup against the possibility of a computer failure. It's not the job of _any_ application program to do that. Making backups is a specialized system function. Windows itself has a backup program, though I've not heard good things and have never used it, and there are several good third-party backup programs. One thing is key: if you "back up" to another location on your computer, you have not done a real backup. A real backup is to another device like an external hard drive, one which is connected to your computer while you are making a backup, then immediately disconnected till next backup time. Why is it critical to back up to a different device? Because if your computer crashes, and your backup is on your computer, you won't have access to your backup. Many people back up to "the cloud". I will say it's better than nothing, but there are potential privacy and security problems with copying your sensitive data to what is, after all, just some big corporation's computer. P.S. You mentioned a "backup" by Libre Office. All that does is copy your documents somewhere in a folder below AppData. For the usefulness of this, see "if your computer crashes", two paragraphs up. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
