On December 3, 2024 21:43:06 Billie Chandler <billie...@gmail.com> wrote:
I need to restore yesterday's backup. How do i do that?
How do you restore any other data? What is your procedure doing backups?
Are you doing them daily? (the way you worded your question implies that
a back-up of yesterday exists)
Like other applications, gnucash does not have its own back-up. Think!
When you began using gnucash were you required to specify all sorts of
things like "how often to make backups, what to call them, where to put
them. Nor could any application do PHYSICAL things like "plug in an
external USB drive"
That's why data back-up is best left to the user.
NOW -- gnucash IS making "session backups" (every time you save). While
these are really for recovery DURING a session if you can correctly
identify the correct one (the last one you made yesterday, you may be
able to use that. Again this depends on your choices (did you specify
"keep for X days", or "keep last Y versions" or what.
Michael D Novack
PS: Selecting the CORRECT version of backup data to restore is not
trivial, even us pros have made costly mistakes. I remember well a "hell
week" as one of the world's larger "financials" had to recover after a
wrong backup was restored. Leading to my biggest career coup when I was
tasked "Mike, can you devise something so that this could never happen
again?"
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