G'day GnuCashers,
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 09:07:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, the *theory* was that efveryone who mainipulated financial data
> would be backup-paranoid. Each date-stamped *.xac file is just a
> backup of the last time you clicked on 'save'. Each date-stamped
> *.log file is a log of all the adds, deletes, changes that you did.
> You can erase all of them, although, of course, if you break something
> whuile balancing your checkbook, you won't have an old version to go
> back to ...
> Anyone have a better idea on how to have backup-paranoia without
> cluttering up the directory too much?
Some ideas:
(1) Configurable settings on how many backups GnuCash will keep.
This could be in days, bytes, files, or all three. Properly
paranoid people would select `unlimited'.
(2) Configurable directory to place backups. This would allow
users to keep lots of backups without having to look at them
all the time. For example, I might store my `working'
GnuCash file in "~/finance/personal/pjf.xac", but want the
backups to go into "~/.gnucash-backups/personal/". In this
way my ~/finance/personal/ directory looks nice and clean,
but I can still get to all my backups if I need them. It
also allows truly paranoid people to store their files on
a different disk (for example) for extra security.
Personally I don't think item number (1) is worth it. The
backup files don't take up much space, and probably SHOULD be kept
even if the user thinks they only need to keep 5 days worth of data.
Option (2) shouldn't be too tricky to implement and provides
a nice clean method of keeping all the backups without them cluttering
the working directory.
Cheers,
Paul
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