Hi David Thanks very much for your comprehensive reply. I am now more confident about using a cloud option. I will look at Drop Box as well as OneDrive. Peter
> On 21 February 2021 at 17:26 David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com > mailto:davidcous...@bigpond.com > wrote: > > > Peter > This works fine within the limitations of the particular offline storage > system you use. I currently have a number of my GnuCash files for personal > finances stored in a folder and subfolders in my Dropbox account which I > can > currently access from any of my desktop, and two mobile laptops. > > I previously also had more devices synced until recent changes in Dropbox > policy restricted the number of devices to 3 on a free account. I have > accessed them while travelling within Australia and internationally with > no > problems. Dropbox syncs Dropbox folders on each device to the Dropbox > server > and each other. Changes made on one computer usually appear on the others > within minutes unless Dropbox has a server outage. > > This serves as aform of offsite backup of my financial records to some > extent although I do use other backup strategies to a NAS and another > offsite storage system periodically. I also copy the GnuCash files to a > location on my hard disk on my backuponce a week using a cron job(Linux) > and > this location is included in my usual backup strategy. I could do this > more > frequently as necessary depending on workflow. My desktop and laptop are > synced at least daily as well. You have to be able to live within the > limitations of the storage provided in a free account unless you are > prepared to pay for additional storage but other wise it works well. > > David Cousens > > > > ----- > David Cousens > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org > 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 gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
