If you have a MAC Time Machine does all the grunt lifting out of backing up; many a time it has saved hours of work of one sort or another for me. For Windows I use Macrion Reflect Free; this has the advantage of being able to mount a backup as a drive and drill down to the file you need - more-or-less like Time Machine on a MAC.
On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 at 18:00, Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > On 1/13/2025 12:37 PM, bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user wrote: > > ok mark, > > > > how do you make a backup in gnucash? extremely new to it. Thank you > > How do you make a backup of all the other user data on your computer? > <<some day your drive will die>> You should not be looking at different > backup of user data from each application. You want a GENERAL back-up > procedure. > > You have a lot of decisions to make. How often will your data be backed > up? To what will the data be backed-up, the cloud? An external drive? If > the latter, a second copy sent offsite? > > The point I am making is that if you are backing up ALL of your user > data, you don't need something specific to gnucash (gnucash user data > just a special case with "all") > > There are TWO fundamental kinds of back-up, all as of some date/time and > "incremental" (every time a file is changed). The latter takes less > space but will require software. The former you can even do manually. > > Michael D Novack > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
