Bruce, I keep my Gnucash data files in a Dropbox account which is accessible from my laptop (Linux Mint), desktop(Linux Mint), phones (Android) and my wife's laptop (formerly Windows 11 but now linux Mint). In my situation the file is only ever accessed from one computer at a time so no conflicts usually. I also use Unison to synchronize my laptop and desktop before using the laptop remotely (mainly for other work, but it can synch the user preference files if desired), but I don't synch the Dropbox account. It generally only takes a minute or two to sync the machines as I keep the sync updated fairly regularly.
I have an NAS for local backups, which is in turn backed up to cloud storage. The Dropbox is useful if you need to share the files with your accountant or others (assuming they also use GnuCash) as you can just send them a link to the file and they can download a copy without disrupting your ongoing usage. The Dropbox is mainly a hangover from days when I did some accounting/bookkeeping for others and these days I could have it shared form the NAS but it used to be useful for accessing client files from client's computers back in the day. I also have NFS network sharing setup on the LAN with automounting on demand but found that did not interact all that nicely with Linux Mint's file manager (Nemo) as it used to take a long time to connect the file shares which delayed its startup at one stage ( where the files were automounted was the problem. David Cousens On Sat, 2024-09-07 at 09:57 -0400, Bruce Griffis wrote: > I am running GnuCash 5.5 on my Ubuntu 24.04 desktop. I also have > GnuCash > installed on my Windows 11 laptop. Right now I just copy my most > recent > GnuCash file over to USB if I want to work on it using my laptop. I > tried using Google Drive, but found the application hanging when > using > Google Drive under Ubuntu. Not sure if it is because my connection is > too slow (1 Gig to my Cisco switch, 1 Gig to my router, 100 Megs > across > my carrier) or if Ubuntu has timing issues with Google Drive. I also > have a subscription to Microsoft 365 and my Windows backups go there. > Ubuntu backups go to an attached USB drive. althouhg I'm considering > cloud storage for Ubuntu as well. I've read that Ubuntu 24.04 > supports > Microsoft drive, but you may need to log in whenever you access the > drive. Only reason I'd consider it is that my Microsoft subscription > comes with a decent amount of cloud storage. Finally, I have a spare > desktop under my desk I could fire up as a headless server. And I > have > an older Raspberry PI I could probably turn into a NAS and share it > locally using Samba. > > What is the current recommendation for sharing GnuCash across > multiple > PCs when it will be one user? I don't want to get too tricky. Heck, I > could probably just share my desktop's drive locally for a low tech > solution. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > 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 To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
