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 logs to be excellent journal files making GC robust enough to not worry about hardware or corruption issues. It only takes a few minutes to restore my database, so I use the dump to sync my laptop (though its just so slow when it's self-serving, but it's standalone so there are no concurrency issues!).
- Art On Wednesday, September 20, 2017, 9:40:57 AM EDT, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > On Sep 20, 2017, at 1:35 AM, DaveC49 <davidcous...@bigpond.com> 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 to my LAN and I worked away from home occasionally. haven't had > any experience with how it copes with simultaneous access and locking > issues. There is also the MYSQL Cluster as another approach. You also need > to check that the replication is up to date and completed before assuming > the databases are identical. I use a cron job and mysqldump to dump the > databases to an NAS for backup. Um, wouldn’t it be easier to just use one of the machines as a server and connect to it with GnuCash from the other machines? Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.