Gnucash file is getting long!

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Jun 16 12:35:01 EDT 2017


Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> writes:

>> Not necessarily.  The "default" backend would be SQLite, which is a DB
>> that stores into a single file.  So it will act like the current XML
>> backend in terms of storage, but not necessarily the same with backup
>> files.  However no server is required.
>
> Great!  Thanks to you & Colin for that information.

Also keep in mind that the mysql data isn't compressed, so your disk
space usage will grow significantly when using a SQL backend vs the
(compressed) XML.

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-derek

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