Adrien,
Thanks for the advice and ideas. I'll play around and get the old years
into version 3.96 or 4.x. Then play around with things and get the
basics working again,
with distributed backups across several linux systems.
I guess, from what I read, is it is pretty straightforward to get data
from banks now, as long as they support one of the standards/formats you
use on a particular gnucash install.
The old 2.4 version book for gnucash by Ashok Ramachandran, made it easy
to follow and setup.
Perhaps someone would write a new book, or develop a website, centric to
the 4.x gnucash going forward. Surely there is already excellent
existing documentation online, as well as this list.
THANKS!
To all for gnucash.
PS, Gentoo has gotten really easy to install:
https://cloveros.ga/
(runs on btrfs)
or
http://exgent.exton.net/
Where it has a Rasp. Pi twist
"I�ve created an exGENT/Gentoo system for Raspberry
Pi 4. Read more about it�"
So now your gnucash accounting system can go anywhere?
James
On 6/22/20 7:14 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
James,
I�ll tackle a few of those for you. (not necessarily by your same point list)
First - 2.4 is several versions old. You�ll need to first install something from
2.6 (the next major version after 2.4), open your data file with it, and perform
Check & Repair. Repeat this for one of the 3.x releases. (version number scheme
changed w/3.x) Then do so again with 4.x. Always work on or with a backup data file
of course.
Second - You asked about a 4.0 beta, that is 3.906 which is a testing release,
but is effectively (per the announcement) a release-candidate barring any major
issues.
Third - For documentation, there is a Help and a Tutorial & Concepts guide on
the website, along with a Wiki. The wiki fills in some gaps in the official
documentation and has some use-case advice. (as well as detailed instructions for
building on Linux) You can install/build the two official docs on linux. See the
build instructions on the wiki for more info. (they come with the Win version
package, and I thought Mac as well, but I�ve never been able to get them to open
from the app on Mac. I just visit the web version if I need them.)
Fourth - Syncing is being done by some users via their own file server or a 3rd
party like Drop Box. Note, there is no mechanism in place to prevent 2 people
from opening the same data file at the same time other than a warning dialog.
But if you�re the only one accessing it and you just want to make it portable
but in one physical place, then that shouldn�t be an issue. Maybe look over a
few threads here about doing this first, at least to see if there are any
hiccups or issues to be aware of.
Fifth - Backups are of course, on your own. Certainly rsync would work. I
personally use BackInTime on my Linux systems. I like that it is somewhat
similar to TimeMachine on my Mac which I prefer over other solutions I�ve
tried through the years. Of course, rsync is a bit more �do it yourself�
but if you are running Gentoo, I don�t expect that to be a roadblock. I once
played with Bacula but found it to be way too much for what I needed.
I�m not familiar with the GnuCash for Android app, and I�ve seen list
threads discussing that it appears to be stalled or abandoned. You�d have to
find their community and developers. It is a separate project from GnuCash.
Hope some of that helps,
Regards,
Adrien
On Jun 22, 2020 w26d174, at 5:32 PM, james via gnucash-user
<gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
Hello,
So I successfully used gnucash for a small S-corp,
from 2012, thru 2017(September).
Then several concurrent/random illnesses sidelined my gnucash usage. The small
s corp trudged along and I did manage to get tax returns file (both S and
personal) but the 100-200 transactions per year where not entered after July
2017.
After years, I'm mostly healthy and ready to
compile the latest version of gnucash on gentoo (actually 3.8b-r1 ) is already
installed and looking at me, to enter data.
So, I'd like to set it up on postgresql and wait until version 4.0 is at least
released in beta. keeping copies
on at least (2) distinct linux systems is required, and a way (methodology) to
sync one to another is very important.
I'd be greatly appreciative for info on how to input the data from 2012-2017,
as I believe it was a 2.4 version of gnucash to gnucash 4.0+. The old 2012
lappy still runs, so I can boot it up, when the times is at hand to migrate
that old data to the system running 4.0+.
Once I do that, move the old data, into gnucash 4.0+, I'd then manually input
the data for years 2017 (august forward) and 2018 and 2019 and 2020.
The company just had a credit card, a checkbook (few written) and me accessing
the data via gnucash.
1. Suggested docs/guides to read
2. upload the old data (2012-2017) lappy to lappy and test.
3.Setup/use OFX with a bank and directly download data into GNUcash.
4. Eventually input/correct 2020 data under the new 4.0* version.
5. have some sorts of rigorous backup system, to a different computer
(options?/suggestions?). rsync by drive to remote drive ?
Anything else anyone can suggest?
Oh, my phone is Android 9 but looking at an Android 20+
in a few months... (unlocked stacks). A discussion on Security for gnucash on
Android would be most welcome. Or a place to read about Gnucash security issue
on both linux/android.
All discussion and suggestions are welcome.
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