How do I make a backup copy of my Notebooks?

[Michael Bradley 1]

I'm using Evernote Personal 10.68.3 on a PC and can no longer export the entire content of Notebooks as a single file to store as a security precaution. I used to sign out and then pressed Ctrl/Shift/E to create the file as a  backup when logging back in again. In the current version this no longer works for me. What is the way to create the backup please?

thanks

Michael
 

[s2sailor 2,411]

On 1/5/2024 at 9:15 PM, Michael Bradley said:

I'm using Evernote Personal 10.68.3 on a PC and can no longer export the entire content of Notebooks as a single file to store as a security precaution. I used to sign out and then pressed Ctrl/Shift/E to create the file as a  backup when logging back in again. In the current version this no longer works for me. What is the way to create the backup please?

thanks

Michael
 

Export notebook by notebook.  In the past when selecting all notes to export you would lose the notebook information.  Backing up each notebook individually maintains that.  If you want to export all the notebooks at one time there is some GitHub code, Evernote-backup, that works pretty well.

[pkopko 0]

I tried to back up my Evernote notebook (over 2000 notes).  I am told that I have to back up 100 notes at a time!  How can this be?  Is there a way to back them ALL up in one step?

Thanks for any advice on this...Phil

[PinkElephant 8,705]

Choose a notebook in notebook view, select export from the 3 dot menu.

Or choose a notebook, and select export from the 3 dots above the notes list.

The 100 notes limit only applies for individually selected notes.

[mackid1993 1,213]

If on Windows you can use Evernote-Backup and my scripts:

1. Initialize database with

 evernote-backup init-db

evernote-backup-sync.bat (run this with task scheduler, keep the batch file in the same directory as evernote-backup.exe

evernote-backup sync -d C:\path\to\en_backup.db
evernote-backup export C:\path\to\\Notebooks -d C:\path\to\en_backup.db --overwrite
ping 127.0.0.1
taskkill /f /im evernote-backup.exe
exit

Once a year it needs to be reauthorized with Evernote:

evernote-backup-reauth.bat

evernote-backup reauth -d C:\path\to\en_backup.db 
pause

Set up a scheduled task similar to this:

 

Start in should be the folder evernote-backup.exe is stored in. The arguments should be:

/c C:\path\to\evernote-backup-sync.bat

I have this script run daily and backup my notebooks, then my backup software backs up the notebooks nightly.

 

[morvenwestfield 2]

I'm using the web client of Evernote. How do I back up my notes from that?

[PinkElephant 8,705]

One by one - there is no group export on the web client.

To export several notes at once, you need the installed client. Or you install something like the Evernote backup project from GitHub.

[RickMiranda 0]

To keep my local Evernote database in sync, I use a procedure similar to that shown by mackid1993. I simply run "evernote-backup sync" on the command line (and in the database's folder) every 2 weeks or so. This worked fine for the last year until last week when I was told my token expired. So I ran "evernote-backup reauth". But now I get a set of Python error statements ending with:

File "C:\Python39\lib\site-packages\evernote\edam\userstore\UserStore.py", line 781, in recv_authenticateLongSession
    raise result.systemException
evernote.edam.error.ttypes.EDAMSystemException: EDAMSystemException(message=None, errorCode=8, rateLimitDuration=None)

Online sources say to retry the reauth command a bit later. I retried about 10 times over a whole week, but no luck. I asked Evernote about this and go no reply.  Has anyone had this problem and is there a solution?

[PinkElephant 8,705]

Reauthenticate using the Auth job.

Then run the backup job manually to see if it works. Only when it does return to the automation.

If the manual job works, but the automatic doesn’t, set the automation up new again.