Backup as a file

What is in the file

• Books, authors, series, progress, bookmarks, edits and covers — all your work on the collection.
• No audio files: you already have them, and they are brought to a new device separately.
• No app settings: the file holds the catalog, not the settings.

Save

• “Save a library backup” builds an archive with the date in its name and opens the “Share” sheet: save it to Files, send it to yourself or put it in another cloud.

Restore

• “Restore from backup” — pick the file. The app checks it first and asks “Replace your library?”, saying how many books are in the backup and how many are in the library now.
• The catalog is replaced only when you tap “Restore N books”. The book files on the device stay where they are.
• The backup is damaged, not from Akoue or made by a newer version — the catalog stays as it was, and the app names the reason.
• If the library won’t open, “Restore from a backup…” is also on the “Could not open the library” screen.

Not to be confused

This is not the iCloud backup — that one is made by itself and comes back only with the whole device; not sync — the file does not update itself; and not offloading — it frees no space.

“Export library”

The button below, in “Take your data”, does something else: a table and JSON for reading the catalog without Akoue. The catalog cannot be restored from them.

Tip

Before moving to a new phone, save a backup to Files — in iCloud Drive: on the new device all that is left is to pick it in “Restore from backup”.

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