Re: budget

2017-09-20 Thread Phil Longstaff
The budget for an account for a specific month is simply an estimate of the amount of money you expect to receive or spend in that account. Let's assume it's an expense account. If you don't spend as much as you expect, you can reduce it and increase another account's budget, so that the total budg

Re: GnuCash: Multiple Views Of Data

2017-09-20 Thread DaveC49
Hi Charles, Take a look at report options and customization. https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/ch_reports.html You can setup specific options for a report and then save it for future use. David - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Us

Re: Backup help

2017-09-20 Thread Klaus Dahlke
I use gnucash on linux with postgres as the database. Usually, I shutdown/switch-off my PC during night time. I have a shutdown script that a) dumps all databases do a second harddrive and then b) copies them to an USB stick attached to a raspberrypi in the network. If someone doesn't switch off

Re: Backup help

2017-09-20 Thread David Cousens
On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 06:31 -0700, John Ralls wrote: > > > > > On Sep 20, 2017, at 1:35 AM, DaveC49 > > wrote: > > > > Hi Colin, > > > > i agree with both you and Bram there. It is not a reliable backup > > of the > > database but really only useful for sharing a database across > > several >

GnuCash: Multiple Views Of Data

2017-09-20 Thread Charles Sliger
Switching from QuickBooks to GnuCash. Q: Is there any facility in GnuCash that allows you to create multiple views (reports, etc) of your financial data? In QuickBooks you can use what they call a "Class" to provide an alternate grouping of records that can be used in reports. What would be even be

budget

2017-09-20 Thread Dennis Powless
I'm trying to wrap my head around the budget. I'm stuck on the carry over each month. Does this value go in the 'budget available' the next month AND the income to be spent the next month. Or, just in the income the next month. I don't think gnucash accounts for any of this, was trying to work

Re: Deleting an invoice or credit

2017-09-20 Thread John Morris
Hi Derek, I'm noticed the problem in the Easy Invoice report in the past. I don't have time right now to confirm the problem still exists. Given the current state of development, I have no confidence that the problem has been eliminated. Best, John > On Sep 20, 2017, at 10:33 AM, Derek Atkins

Re: Deleting an invoice or credit

2017-09-20 Thread Derek Atkins
writes: > Got it. Thanks. Being able to delete an invoice/credit note would be a > nice feature to see someday. > > > > Is there a register where you can see all the invoices or do you have > to look for them one at a time? There is no register, but you can search for "all" of them: Business

Re: Deleting an invoice or credit

2017-09-20 Thread Derek Atkins
John Morris writes: >> But you can edit it, including changing the customer involved and the >> invoice number. So the next time you need an invoice or credit note, you >> can just reuse this practice one instead of generating a new one. > > The only problem with this idea is that some ways of

Re: Backup help

2017-09-20 Thread Art via gnucash-user
I just read your message after I sent my previous one. I was using MYSQL master-slave replication with my desktop servers and only running a client my laptop, but after realizing how quick the dump & restore was and how rarely I actually "go mobile", it was easier for me to just do the restore

Re: Backup help

2017-09-20 Thread Art via gnucash-user
Yes, a client-server architecture would be simpler and easier for this purpose; however, you wouldn't have the redundancy of a cluster or a mirror (MySQL Master Slave Replication). I did it to learn how to do it, but now I just do a dump and restore of my MySQL db. And I found the transaction l

Re: Backup help

2017-09-20 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 20, 2017, at 1:35 AM, DaveC49 wrote: > > Hi Colin, > > i agree with both you and Bram there. It is not a reliable backup of the > database but really only useful for sharing a database across several > machines and worked well for the use case where my laptop was generally > connected

Re: GnuCash on ArchLinux

2017-09-20 Thread alarin
Hey John Do you know when is it going to happen when 2.8 is released? Problem is that none of the tips other guys suggested worked and in the meanwhile i found some other free accounting software but i still would like to test gnucash at some point. B.wishes Andres -- Securely sent with Tutan

Re: Backup help

2017-09-20 Thread DaveC49
Hi Colin, i agree with both you and Bram there. It is not a reliable backup of the database but really only useful for sharing a database across several machines and worked well for the use case where my laptop was generally connected to my LAN and I worked away from home occasionally. haven't ha

Re: Backup help

2017-09-20 Thread Bram Mertens
Colin, You've got that correct. Replication, just like e.g. RAID protects against some forms of data loss but it is not a full backup solution. It could be part of it though, e.g. if running a more permanent backup from the slave is easier than running it on the master. MySQL/MariaDB have specif

Re: Backup help

2017-09-20 Thread Colin Law
Just to point out that database replication might not be considered a good form of backup. It copes with something like a disc crash but if, for example, a user or bug were accidentally to delete large sections of the db then that deletion would be copied to the slave database. Unless I misundersta