From: Benny M. <ben...@gm...> - 2012-09-11 12:26:54
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2012/9/11 David O. Rowell <djr...@cf...> > Apologies - every problem is simpler when you're working from > ignorance! My last adventure into databases was (gasp!) in the '70's - > things were simpler then ;-) > > To back away from the nitty gritty, the data contained in the database > file is the result of way too much hard work to risk any reasonable risk > of loss. If all versions of the DB aren't somehow reasonably > accessible then that work is pretty much for naught. It scares me to > hear that Oracle has anything to do with my genealogy data! > They bought sleepycat, which created the free database we use. It is still free, but an oracle product: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/berkeleydb/overview/index.html Oracle buys a lot of stuff, it's hard to stay out of their clutches :-) Benny > > PAF and Ancestral Quest (PAF's grandfather) suggest periodic back-up at > an user selected interval. PAF back-up is just a zip file. Perhaps > that's a useful feature? "automatic" generation of an XML? > > David Rowell > > -- > "Osama is dead and GM is alive - that has a nice ring to it!" > |