[GNC] Fwd: Smaller backup files: Time division, Since or Incremental?
Geoff
cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 04:30:38 EST 2020
Have you considered only backing up the log files then? They are your
incrementals...
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html
Geoff
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On 21/12/2020 1:28 pm, David G. Pickett wrote:
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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
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> One thing that complicates my gnucash life is the size and number of
> backup files.
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> * 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.
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