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, itâs 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, itâs 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 Iâll need to access each on their own.. so, if an event has a theater, Iâll 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! ---- peace, sergio photographer, journalist, visionary Public Key: https://pgp.key-server.io/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x69B08F58923AB3A2 #BitMessage BM-NBaswViL21xqgg9STRJjaJaUoyiNe2dV @sergio_101@mastodon.social https://sergio101.com http://www.codeandmusic.com http://www.twitter.com/sergio_101 http://www.facebook.com/sergio101