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Originally Posted by kaufman
Wish item for the next release cycle:
Would it be possible to add a function to back up and restore the current settings? You have enough of them now that it would be great to have a way to set up a new device easily. I'm not looking to back up the book database, just the other settings.
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This is part of the analysis we are doing for general backup. One of the problems we must solve is migration. What happens if a person restores a backup from 2 or 3 versions ago? We know what to do with the db, run it sequentially through the upgrades. We need to be sure that we do the same for preferences.
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Ideally, you would do this by using the google data backup stuff, but I would be almost as happy with the ability to write out and read in a file.
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Would Google's backup service really be the right thing to use? It seems to depend on the files being identical across all devices, which is clearly not true for CC. I can't find any way to control what data set get restored or to have multiple data sets.
There is also a lot of chatter on the 'net saying that the service is fundamentally unreliable. I don't know the truth of that, but given that backups and restores "magically happen" at unknown points, I can see lots of room for problems.