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/** \page backuppolicy Backup Design
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API: \ref Backend
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Currently, backups and log files are automatically stored by the engine
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with date/time stamps every time the user hits 'save' in the gui.
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(The actual file writing is done by xaccWriteAccountGroupFile() in
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in src/engine/FileIOP.h)
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\section backupchanges Proposed design changes:
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-# Allow user to configure which directory backups should be put into.
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(currently, this is same as current directory). Requires changes to
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engine FileIOP.h as well as GUI.\n
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One possible default is ~/.gnucash/data/ (Which is supposed to
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be the place where files are saved if no directory is specified.!?)
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-# Prompt the user to make a backup every third save. Make this number
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configurable. If no default backup path set, prompt to set it,
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with suggested path being ~/.gnucash/backups/
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-# If save format was XML text, then could use RCS ...
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Alternately,
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For those that don't know, xdelta is like RCS, but it's designed to
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handle any kind of data, including binary, is supposed to work really
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well, and transparently handles gzipped data with some form of MD5sum
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verification. It's also available in library form. Like RCS it would
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give us the ability to do cool things like snapshot the data every so
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often for nearly no cost. Want to see what things looked like 6
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months ago? Just enter the right date into the "time-warp" dialog :>\n
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For those on Debian systems, just install the xdelta and
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libxdelta2-dev packages. Others can get the source from
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ftp://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/pub/xdelta/, or just go to
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ftp.debian.org:/pub/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/utils/xdelta*.tar.gz
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-# Could monitor how many changes (records altered) the user has made,
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and could prompt for more frequent saves if lots of editing has
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occurred...
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*/
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