Allow cloud backups to work on a note-by-note basis (incremental backups)
Currently, cloud backup saves one single file to my Dropbox account. If I have a few large notes (containing annotated photos, for example) my database can quickly get HUGE, and every backup session takes forever (or fails, very frequently). It would be great if Squid could do incremental backups so only new or updated notes will be uploaded to the cloud.
A major update to cloud backup is now available to everyone on Google Play! Backups are now created at the note level, meaning only the notes that were created or edited since the last backup will be uploaded to the cloud. As a result, backups are now MUCH faster and can easily resume after being interrupted.
This has been a long time coming, so thanks for your patience. Please try it out and let us know if you have any feedback!
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Daena Smith commented
And allow scheduling of uploads. I'm always in class at college needing to use my tablet or need to use the internet and it slows things down.
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Anonymous commented
This can be easily done using the rsync tool available under *nix environments. Maybe, its code can be reused into papyrus for android.
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Anonymous commented
This feature really really I need!
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David Blaine Fullerton commented
I totally agree with this comment. I have even suggested similar issues with backup improvements. Right now I would love to get this application to 25,000 people in our organization, but it is not ready and I would look stupid for suggesting it. But it is headed there so that maybe in 6 months or a year many organizations could pick up an application like this for all the tablets that are starting to be distributed in the work forces. And I can help make that happen for you.
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David Blaine Fullerton commented
of course, I agree with all the above. I also posted an idea similar to this, but I suggested that you allow people a certain backup schedule that has the time frame that you want to back up like say do it on a daily basis, do it at a time, do it weekly, etc. That is the schedule. Then I would want a formatted nomenclature to allow me to notate when the PDF is changed in the particular notebook, say if you will show each separate PDF that has changed with with out a notebook, maybe even have that option. But, the format of nomenclature is where I can monkey around with something like date, month, year, hour, AM PM, some name, whatever else. Let me give you an example what I do with other things. I will private and not dictate...
David daily PDF changes -- note 3 -- 2015 -01- 15 @12.01am.pdf
that is how I do everything else in my life but the extension has changed. It might be WinZip or whatever, but that is how I track thing in my life. So, I agree with everyone else that that this is a feature that is very lacking for people that really want to use your application. Thank you for listening., David Fullerton
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David Blaine Fullerton commented
I would suggest that you allow the user to be able to the time frame as to when their notes will be back up. and I would like the ability to back up to my network server or to a directory on the tablet with a particular time frame that I set. Also, I also would save my single singlePDF that has every single change to the same as I just described, but I wish that you would create and save saving formatted nomenclature so bad I can say every single PDF that I change will be back up either on my network, in a local directory, or in the cloud with the following options, such as PDF change -- 2015 - 01 - 15 - 12. 01 a.m. On Galaxy Note 3 .pdf as the file name. Then I can track it so much easier and see every single PDF that I changed during the day because I would love to use your application for grocery list, to do list, everything. But it is not there and able for me to do it personally and/or to suggest it to management for other people to put it on to their purchased 25,000 member organization.
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Peter Brookes-Smith commented
Lots of duplicated ideas in this space. It seems many people (including me) want incremental backup.
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Sarah commented
Yeah, only updating edited notes would save a lot of time and effort (AND DATA).
It wouldn't be hard either. Just check edited date on device vs upload date on the cloud. They should be able to implement this easily. This should have been a thing since the very beginning...
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Paul David Thomas commented
I agree. This would make the backup process much faster, and would probably eliminate the back up failure a lot of people are experiencing, especially with large back ups.
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Kie commented
As i see it, the pdf export is broken if the same note keeps being exported over and over again.
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Richard Nguyen commented
This feature would be great. I have it set to autoexport PDF to the cloud which is a great feature to have, but it does take a long time to export the notes to PDF and upload. I'm currently only at 50 notes and it takes roughly 2-3 minutes to export as it goes through every single one, regardless of if it was updated or not. I can't imagine how long 529 notes would take!
It would be great if it only exported notes that have been updated since the last export.
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Anonymous commented
Sync Status ( percentage)
with incremental backups & support for more storage options like Google Drive. -
Thomas Regan commented
Currently if I cannot backup notes in pdf format I export each modified or new file manually and then download it on my other phone as a pdf file and save it but this is a pain taking a long time. Also if I'm busy I forget to go through this procedure ending up with two different versions of a note.
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Thomas Regan commented
This would be an excellent feature as currently when I'm updating to Dropbox it frequently fails.
Also currently if a phone isn't rooted you cannot manually just copy the database to have as a backup. It would be good if the file was viewable in the File Manager -
Andrea Barraza commented
PDF export and cloud backup does really take forever which makes it impractical to have many notes in papyrus. I am forced to erase old notes that tend not to change so I can use Papyrus. Not only does it take too long it also takes too much memory making my papyrus unusable when it's exporting.
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Yashwanth Yadavalli commented
It would be great if you can implement updates to pdf exports (those that are cloud synced) as well
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Peter Brookes-Smith commented
This is a really good idea. The Dropbox backup is taking longer and longer. Then it often fails right at the end because of the Dropbox huge file transfer. I haven't had a successful backup for more than 5 days. All the old stuff hasn't changed and the new stuff that is really important isn't backed up at all