File store (was Re: Salutations)

[Phillip Shelton]

These should still be able to be browsed? And what about being able to read
old archived files with new GnuCash?

Phill

> -----Original Message-----
> > Will the closing of the books be easier or harder with a DB?
>
> I favour the "creating a saved GnuCash file" (in XDR format?
> :-) method of
> archiving, since saved files are well suited to archiving. Archives in
> SQL databases are useful for data mining and OLAP, but are
> more costly to
> store - anm archive file can be dumped onto tape or just
> deleted by the
> user at their convenience...