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

[David G. Pickett]

Are there options to not replicate the full file?

   
   - Loading the data from multiple files would not take any appreciable additional time.
   - Loading the recent data first might save times, as really old data is off screen in most accounts.
   - The algorithm could even take into account keeping deeper time images of low churn accounts so the first page could be populated and the rest installed in the background.


-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff <cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com>
To: David G. Pickett <DavidGPickett at comcast.net>; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Sent: Mon, Dec 21, 2020 4:30 am
Subject: Re: [GNC] Fwd: Smaller backup files: Time division, Since or Incremental?

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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> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> 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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