Backing up entire contents to external hard drive

[dtgrimm 0]

Is there a way to make a complete backup of all evernote data to an external drive without having to export each notebook individually? I'm using the desktop version on a Mac.  

[Boot17 1,455]

With v10, there is not. You'll have to use Legacy (not available directly from Evernote and future is short) or a 3rd party tool like https://github.com/akosbalasko/yarle or https://github.com/vzhd1701/evernote-backup. There are also some paid commercial 3rd party products like Backupery or CloudHQ.

If you search the forums you may find other similar tools, but those are the four that I seem to see most often.

[Dave-in-Decatur 3,967]

3 hours ago, dtgrimm said:

Is there a way to make a complete backup of all evernote data to an external drive without having to export each notebook individually? I'm using the desktop version on a Mac.  

10 minutes ago, Boot17 said:

With v10, there is not. You'll have to use Legacy (not available directly from Evernote and future is short) or a 3rd party tool like https://github.com/akosbalasko/yarle or https://github.com/vzhd1701/evernote-backup. There are also some paid commercial 3rd party products like Backupery or CloudHQ.

If you search the forums you may find other similar tools, but those are the four that I seem to see most often.

Well.... On Windows, there is a definite location where Evernote data are stored: C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Evernote, and its sub-folders. I don't know if there's an equivalent on a Mac. @PinkElephant?

[Boot17 1,455]

Yeah - but as far as I know and have heard (and seen), the data in that folder and subfolders is not stored in a way that it is of much use anywhere outside the app itself and the currently signed in user of the app -- so it doesn't really serve as a backup. 
 

Like you'd have to manually splice things together in a text editor and programming to make use of it and no other app can import it. You couldn't even copy it to another machine where Evernote is already installed and make use of it. 

[PinkElephant 8,121]

A copy of the database folder can serve as a backup, but only when the EN client is used. In such a case a new install is needed. Then the client is quit again, and the new (nearly empty) database is replaced in Explorer/Finder by the copy of the old database.

To have a backup that can be used with a number of apps, independent from EN I recommend the Evernote Backup project on GitHub.