[GNC] Fwd: Smaller backup files: Time division, Since or Incremental?

[David G. Pickett]

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Subject: 	Smaller backup files: Time division, Since or Incremental?
Date: 	Sat, 19 Dec 2020 14:40:54 -0500
From: 	David G. Pickett <DavidGPickett at comcast.net>
To: 	gnucash-devel at gnucash.org



One thing that complicates my gnucash life is the size and number of 
backup files.

  * It'd be nice, since most of the data is very historical, if it the
    data was divided by time into multiple files, more finely in rear
    time.  Even if old files occasionally get updated by new work, they
    would mostly be static.
  * Another traditional way to keep backup sizes down is the Since-the
    last-full and the Incremental since the last incremental.
  * Since files are in xml, if they are line divided by transaction or
    entry, text tools like good old sccs can discern differences.