Temporary File Deletion

hendrik at topoi.pooq.com hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Thu Jan 10 09:41:31 EST 2008


On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 06:27:24AM -0700, Ron Morse wrote:
> Define safe...hehe. 
> 
> You can remove them...but I think it's a good idea to keep the last
> couple of sets to mitigate against a current session problem or user
> error.  The backups also allow for a certain degree of "scrollback." 

I've found it invaluable to be able to look back through months of old 
backup files in a kind of binary search to find the one where one of my 
accounts stopped reconciling properly.  That  and a diff found me the 
transaction that was misreconciled.

-- hendrik


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