Tr : Backing up prob

[Fred Bone]

On 17 September 2012 at 9:06, Derek Atkins said:

> AlainCageda <alaincageda at yahoo.fr> writes:
> 
> > How can I find out whether I'm using XML or SQL storage?
> 
> If you were on Unix I would say "run file /path/to/your/file.gnucash"
> which would tell you it is either a sqlite3 database or gzipped data. On
> Windows, I'm not sure how you tell.  

Opening it in a text editor (e.g. Notepad), an SQLite3 file starts with 
the words "SQLite format 3", an uncompressed xml file begins with "<?xml" 
and a compressed xml file will look like random garbage.

(Tested just now!)