Automatic Saving

[Glen Ditchfield]

On January 3, 2003 12:50 pm, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> It saves once a minute for the first 4 minutes, then once every 4
> minutes for the first 16 minutes, then once every 16 minutes for
> the first 64 minutes, etc., forever. ... Because of the logarithmic 
> distribution, it means that
> even if you run for years, you won't have more than 20 or so backup
> copies

I launch GnuCash two or three times a month, run it twenty or thirty minutes 
at a time, and delete backups once a month (because it's easy to type a wild 
card pattern for a month's worth of backup file names).  With this scheme, 
I'd end up with 10-15 backup files, at about 1.6MB each -- a bit excessive, I 
think.