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Obsidian backup

Backups¶

To avoid losing notes when the hard drive crashes or gets stolen, we need backups

Git¶

Git is a backup system popular with programmers. It’s a bit more technical.
There’s a git extension for Obsidian, see Obsidian plugin - Git

  • on Windows PC, the git plugin works well and supports submodules.
  • on Android, it doesn’t work as smoothly, with occasional merge issues. And it doesn’t support submodules on Android.

Dropbox & OneDrive¶

not yet tested with Obsidian, should be pretty smooth and support mobile.

backup cloud redundancy¶