Managing the database size

[aeneas]

GNUcash is something that is used constantly over a long period of time
(i.e., ideally a lifetime or even more).  As such the amount of data
contained in the database grows and eventually becomes a problem.  How long
that takes depends on many things and will be different for just about
everyone.  However, software like this requires some kind of archiving
capability.  Insofar as it is desirable to also retain a large amount of
historical data the archiving process requires the ability to perform some
kind of operation that preserves data older than a specified date in a file,
which I'm calling an archive, and flushes (i.e., removes) that same older
data from the active file.

I'm just now considering whether or not I want to invest the time and effort
to adopt the use of GNUcash but couldn't find any information about how to
archive in the available documentation.  Hopefully this is just a matter of
my ignorance about the terminology that might be employed with this
software.

I'd appreciate any advice on how to figure out how to do archiving.



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