Backup and export

Category: system quality

Summary: Practices for preserving copies of notes and making them recoverable or movable.

What it means

Backups protect against loss; exports protect against lock-in. Both are part of maintaining trust in a knowledge system.

How it shows up in personal knowledge management

They connect to portability, privacy, plain-text, markdown, and archives.

Common mistakes

• Assuming cloud sync is the same as backup.
• Never testing restore or export.

Related pages

• portability
• privacy
• plain-text
• markdown
• archives