James, you're getting some good advice in the responses you've received
so far. May I add that it might be useful to review the Gnucash Tutorial
and Concepts Guide regarding types of files Gnucash makes/uses. This is
in Chapter 2 (Ver 4 Tutorial) called Backing Up and Recovering Data.
There is a section specifically about backups but this is about saving
the most recent user file saved going back in time and it uses a date to
show when it was made. It is useful as an operational tool if you need
to go backwards to a point in time but it is NOT a backup of your
computer files to a separate location. In other words, if you only have
1 copy of your file then you do NOT have a secure backup.
There is a lot of information about backing up computer files and
methods to do it. If I may suggest it, go back to basics and get a good
grounding in how backing up works. It can seem complicated but it
doesn't have to be. Search for backing up and I suggest look at askleo
(dot) com articles. I am in no way associated with askleo -- just a fan.
It is critical to get a good handle on backing up your computer files.
Best wishes.
On 6/28/2023 3:35 PM, Stan Brown wrote:
On 2023-06-28 13:21, David Carlson wrote:
James,
When your computer fails, your data will be gone unless you, by your own
volition, have made a special plan to back up your data to a safe and
proper external location. Nobody here can tell you if you made a proper
choice. That also goes for all the other data on your computer.
...> There is no backup in GnuCash.
And let us be clear, it's not GnuCash's job to do a backup against the
possibility of a computer failure. It's not the job of _any_ application
program to do that. Making backups is a specialized system function.
Windows itself has a backup program, though I've not heard good things
and have never used it, and there are several good third-party backup
programs.
One thing is key: if you "back up" to another location on your computer,
you have not done a real backup. A real backup is to another device like
an external hard drive, one which is connected to your computer while
you are making a backup, then immediately disconnected till next backup
time. Why is it critical to back up to a different device? Because if
your computer crashes, and your backup is on your computer, you won't
have access to your backup.
Many people back up to "the cloud". I will say it's better than nothing,
but there are potential privacy and security problems with copying your
sensitive data to what is, after all, just some big corporation's computer.
P.S. You mentioned a "backup" by Libre Office. All that does is copy
your documents somewhere in a folder below AppData. For the usefulness
of this, see "if your computer crashes", two paragraphs up.
Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com
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