If I'm not mistaken, Mint has a backup utility. So you can just set it
up and make sure the GnuCash locations noted in the Wiki and Guide are
included in the paths to be backed up.
Regards,
Adrien
On 8/10/22 9:29 PM, davidcousen...@gmail.com wrote:
James
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html
The info https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations is also useful
for backing up user preferences and things like customized reports.
To back up to a USB drive on Linux Mint, the drive should appear in the file
manager (icon that looks like a filing cabinet folder in the LH panel of the
Menu) once you have plugged it in and it is mounted. Navigate to andelect the
folder containing the data file Ctr-c to copy it. Navigate to the USB hard drive
and select a suitable directory to keep your backups in on the Hard drive and
Ctrl-v to paste a copy there (or use the Edit items in the menu).
How to do actually backups is an operating system issue and not really a GnuCash
issue. Gnucash's internal backup, logfiles and restore capability are primarily
about recovering from a datafile corrupted by a GnuCash program crash, rather
than general computer failures like a hard disk failure. There are any number
of articles on general computer backup strategies on the internet depending on
the facilities you have available and how much you want to spend setting it up.
A good practice is at least a backup to another local device in your home (USB
disk, NAS, another computer) and a backup to an offsite facility to protect you
if your house burns down for example (USB stick kept by a relative ot cloud
facility)
On Linux you can create "cron" jobs to schedule automatic backups if this is
useful. For example I backup critical files to a cloud storage as well as local
network storage on my LAN automatically daily and synchronize files between my
laptop and desktop with Unison whenever they are connected so there are always
multiple copies of my most recent datafile. My NAS is separately backedp up to
cloud storage.
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