I've been backing up my database by just saving a copy of the database and dating it. I then keep using my original file. I noticed that my original file doubles in size every time I make a backup. What was once a 10 MB document is now 200 MB. What is a good way to shrink the size of my current database back to 10 MB? And what is the best way to do backups in the future? Note that the increase of my database's size has very little to do with new records; I've only added a few hundred, maybe a thousand, text-based records over the last four months.
Thanks!