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.gnucashdgp@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 <[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]> > To: David G. Pickett <[email protected]>; [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 > > 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]> >> To: [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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
