Local Backup

Automatically creates a local backup of the vault.

Features

• Backup on startup
• Setup backups' lifecycle
• Customize output path
• Interval backups
• Backup by calling archiver (7-Zip, WinRAR, Bandizip)
• Retry after failures
• Create specific file

How to use

Setup the plugin

General Settings

Hints

1. Setup the output path depends on your computer platform.
2. Setup the Windows and Unix output path while you using these two platforms.

If you turn on interval backups, it is recommended to set a reasonable bakcup frequency, e.g. >=10min, this plugin costs CPU resources and Disk I/O resources, backup frequently might cause lagging.

File Archiver Settings (Optional)

Hints

1. (Experimental) If you have a large size vault and Obsidian stucks on backing up, please try the experimental feature in setting page.

For user who owns a vault with large size, it is recommended to turn on Backup by calling external file archiver in setting page, the experimental feature of the latest version, then setup the rest of settings of archiver.

Run a local backup command

Command panel

Enter the command panel using Ctrl + P.

Create a specific backup

As you can see in the command panel screenshot above, you are available to create a specific backup file if you want to keep the file. The file created by this command would not delete by the plugin. But you have to name it different from the File name setting. (eg. File name: dev-Backup-%Y_%m_%d-%H_%M_%S, and your specific file name should not be the same format as File name).

Sidebar icon

Click the sidebar icon.

Installation

Install from plugin store

• Search Local Backup at Obsidian Community Plugins and install it.
• Enable Local Backup.
• Setup Local Backup.
• Apply settings or restart Obsidian.
• Enjoy! 🎉

Manually installing the plugin

• Copy over main.js, styles.css, manifest.json to your vault VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/your-plugin-id/.
• Open Obsidian and enable Local Backup.
• Follow the guiding above.

Contributing

Build

Code contributing is welcome! Just make a PR to master branch directly:)

• Clone this repo.
• Make sure your NodeJS is at least v16 (node --version).
• npm i or yarn to install dependencies.
• npm run dev to start compilation in watch mode.
• npm run build to build the main.js in ./build.

Reference

• adm-zip
• 7-Zip
• WinRAR
• Bandizip

Sponsor this project

You could consider buy me a coffee if the plugin saves your time!

License

Obsidian Local Backup is licensed under the MIT license. Refer to LICENSE for more information.