Cleaning up backups

[Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-]

I have this in my crontab at home:

50 14 * * 0 find ~/gnucash/ \( -name "*.xac" -o -name "*.log" \) -mtime +30 -exec rm -vf \{\} \;

I like to keep the last 30 days on-line in case something odd happens
in gnucash.  I use rm -v to see the output of the cronjob so if anything
odd happens, I can restore everything from the nightly backups.

HTH,

Michael Sterrett
  -Mr. Bones.-
michael.sterrett@coat.com


On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, dann wrote:

> Perhaps this is convered somewhere in the documentation, but I cannot find
> it.  Everytime I save and close gnucash a new file is created in my
> account directory listing the account name with the date and time appended
> to it.  There are two files, a .log and .xac.  As time goes on, these
> files have been getting larger and taking up a lot of space.  
> 
> Is there a way to set gnucash to delete some of these older files?  Are
> they necessary?  I have found that deleting older files does not seem to
> affect the data in my account.  
> 
> Right now, this directory is using 21 megs of space and holding 5 seperate
> date/time's I have used gnucash.
> 
> Thanks
> 
>