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
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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@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@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 <[email protected]>
To: David G. Pickett <[email protected]>; [email protected]
<[email protected]>
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 <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> To: David G. Pickett <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>; [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
> 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 <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
>> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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