I have been in the relational database world for decades. One of the things 
that is super simple is backing up and restoring data.

Sometimes, it makes it makes sense to pull the production data into 
development. In the case of a catastrophe, it’s super simple to restore data 
from a backup.

I am thinking of backup strategies for my data once again, and am wondering if 
things have changed since I was last using smalltalk.

I am thinking of the following:

STON
I could dump all of my data into STON, but there is one slight twist. In this 
project, it’s just making a list of movie listings. There are three basic 
classes: Theater, Movie, Event. Each of these classes stores an 
OrderedCollection of items of that type on a class variable, as I’ll need to 
access each on their own.. so, if an event has a theater, I’ll need to access 
Theaters on their own, and Movies on their own.

So, I would have to rebuild the list of Theaters from the Theaters in each 
event. Otherwise, I would lose the link between the Theaters on the Theater 
class variable and the Theater in the Event instance.

Am I thinking about this incorrectly?

Gemstones
I am totally into the idea of using gemstones. Is there a backup and restore 
for objects here? do the relationships remain?

Voyage
This seems like a good solution, but I would rather stay in the smalltalk 
object store.

Ideas?

Thanks!

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sergio
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