Backups: Is there a simple way?

[redmondm0 8]

Although I do export monthly my most important notebooks, I would like a way of backing up my entire EN database. The settings menu in the Windows desktop version says that EN local data is stored in %AppData%\Evernote. Couldn't I just copy that location, say, to hard disk?

Michael

[Dave-in-Decatur 4,006]

On my Windows 10 machine, it's %AppData%\Roaming\Evernote\. But yes, I think copying that would get all the data. Obviously (AFAIK) it could only be read by Evernote, not e.g. imported to another program.

[gazumped 12,077]

The 'official' way to backup your data is by downloading and exporting notebooks from the server to ENEX / HTML / PDF files from a desktop app.  If you have a large number of notebooks this needs to be automated somehow.  There's a Github project (Evernote-Backup) which will do this for you.