[GNC] Fwd: Smaller backup files: Time division, Since or Incremental?
Geoff
cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 16:15:02 EST 2020
Hi David
You said that:
"One thing that complicates my gnucash life is the size and number of
backup files."
Depending on your risk appetite, you could simplify your backup regime
by only backing up the master file itself:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dgp dgp 3433048 Dec 22 08:23 GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash
Or, that file plus the transaction log files (which are much much
smaller as they only contain the transactions you have entered in a
session).
Regards
Geoff
=====
On 23/12/2020 12:51 am, David G. Pickett wrote:
> I am sure my daily stock quotes do not help (also very historical), but
> this just reflects our quiet retired life as a middle class couple, not
> in the 1%:
>
> dgp at dgp-p6803w:~
> $ new GnuCash/*gnucash
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dgp dgp 3430699 Dec 18 14:52
> GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash.20201218145806.gnucash
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dgp dgp 3430685 Dec 18 14:58
> GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash.20201218150354.gnucash
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dgp dgp 3430760 Dec 18 15:03
> GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash.20201219000126.gnucash
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dgp dgp 3431599 Dec 19 00:01
> GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash.20201220000125.gnucash
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dgp dgp 3431594 Dec 20 00:01
> GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash.20201221000126.gnucash
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dgp dgp 3431594 Dec 21 00:01
> GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash.20201221121236.gnucash
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dgp dgp 3431870 Dec 21 12:12
> GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash.20201221122809.gnucash
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dgp dgp 3432037 Dec 21 12:28
> GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash.20201222000126.gnucash
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dgp dgp 3432967 Dec 22 00:01
> GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash.20201222082339.gnucash
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dgp dgp 3433048 Dec 22 08:23 GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash
> dgp at dgp-p6803w:~
> $ file GnuCash/*gnucash
> GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash: gzip compressed
> data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 54774628
> GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash.20201001000150.gnucash: gzip compressed
> data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 53227358
> GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash.20201001103626.gnucash: gzip compressed
> data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 53242986
> GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash.20201001105516.gnucash: gzip compressed
> data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 53247987
> GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash.20201001110638.gnucash: gzip compressed
> data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 53249627
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff <cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com>
> To: David G. Pickett <dgpickett at aol.com>; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Sent: Mon, Dec 21, 2020 5:51 pm
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Fwd: Smaller backup files: Time division, Since or
> Incremental?
>
> Not to my knowledge.
>
> Out of interest, how big is your XML file currently, and is it
> compressed or uncompressed?
>
> Edit / Preferences / General / Compress files.
>
> Thanks
>
> Geoff
> =====
>
> On 22/12/2020 3:28 am, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote:
> > 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 <mailto:cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com>>
> > To: David G. Pickett <DavidGPickett at comcast.net
> <mailto:DavidGPickett at comcast.net>>; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> <mailto: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
> <https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html>
> >
> > Geoff
> > =====
> >
> > On 21/12/2020 1:28 pm, David G. Pickett wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -------- 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
> <mailto:DavidGPickett at comcast.net>>
> >> To: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org <mailto: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.
> >>
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