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

[David G. Pickett]

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.gnucashdgp at dgp-p6803w:~$ file GnuCash/*gnucashGnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash:                        gzip compressed data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 54774628GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash.20201001000150.gnucash: gzip compressed data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 53227358GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash.20201001103626.gnucash: gzip compressed data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 53242986GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash.20201001105516.gnucash: gzip compressed data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 53247987GnuCash/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
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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>
> 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
> =====
> 
> 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>
>> 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.
>>
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