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.
Christian Dümmer
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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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Peter Brookes-Smith
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Lots of duplicated ideas in this space. It seems many people (including me) want incremental backup.
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Sarah
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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
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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
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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
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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
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with incremental backups & support for more storage options like Google Drive. -
Thomas Regan
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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
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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
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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
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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