[moneydance] current balance is old?

[Edward Reid]

At 09:14 02/19/08 -0600, Ruth Harris wrote:
>I have seen almost unbelievable horror stories over the years regarding 
>database corruption and no viable backups.

Neither is related to whether a program is left running.

Database corruption (taken literally, meaning corruption and not just 
ordinary GIGO) is a bug in the software. Throw it out.

Don't trust individual programs to do backups. Yes, some do, due to the 
criminal lack of backup options in computers as-sold. Don't trust them. 
This is also unrelated to leaving programs running. (Apple is finally at 
least attempting to address the lack of built-in backup.)

>Yep. Best practices will keep you from serious regrets. And from my
>point of view, not leaving an end user program running for days on end
>should be considered a best practice. But that is strictly my opinion.

It's not the opinion of people in the IT industry, and we beat on the 
computers a hell of a lot harder than an accounting office does.

The best systems today run for months at a time, including continuously 
running application software, in far more hostile environments than 99.9% 
of desktop computers. The difference isn't technology or cost, it's marketing.

At 00:49 02/19/08 -0500, Ric Werme wrote:
>Yeah, I should back up to off-site.

I've recently been using Jungle Disk for offsite. I don't have any 
reasonable way to move physical media offsite, so online backup is a big 
help. Amazon S3 (on which JD is built) has finally brought online backup 
into a price range that's reasonable for me.

Edward
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