![]() This will replace your existing data, so be sure to make another backup if you need to before proceeding. You can do a full recovery from a zip file using the File->Recover from Zip command on the desktop version. The web based version is full featured and can be accessed from any device even without the mobile app. Alternately, a lot of users have been using the new web based version of BeerSmith instead by just logging into their cloud account from their mobile browser at. Backing Up Your Mobile ApplicationĬurrently the only method for backing up your BeerSmith mobile app is to copy important recipes to your cloud folder from within the app. Store this file on a backup or thumb drive offsite. To back up your cloud based data from the desktop, go to Cloud view and then select File->Export All which will write a single BSMX file containing all of your cloud based data. The reason for this is that your account login and password could still be compromised, and also a disgruntled employee could delete data if they have access to the account. While the cloud based recipes for BeerSmith Web and your cloud folder are stored on our server and backed up nightly, I still recommend backing them up periodically. There are more details on this process here. This will make a full backup and put it in a separate zip file you can store on a thumb drive or external hard drive separate from your computer. Fortunately you can backup all of your locally stored data including profiles and ingredients by simply going to File->Full Backup to Zip on the desktop. However not everyone uses an automated backup program. In an ideal world those directories should be included in your regular backups. Backing Up Local Desktop Dataįor the desktop version, your data is stored in the hidden AppDataRoamingBeerSmith3 directory on Windows or the user’s Library/BeerSmith3 directory (%APPDATA%/BeerSmith3 also hidden) on the Mac. If you are running a commercial brewery, I strongly recommend backing up both your local and cloud recipe data periodically and storing it offsite where it can’t be compromised. In some cases disgruntled employees have even deleted their cloud data. Even more heartbreaking are those breweries who may have fired or removed a brewer only to find that the brewer took their recipe data with them. Unfortunately I regularly receive emails from commercial brewers who have had a hard drive failure. It should be obvious, but your Craft beer recipes are critical data for your business that should be backed up periodically. This data is kept on the server database and backed up nightly, so it is relatively secure. Since your phone can be lost or broken, you may want to back it up by coping important recipes to your cloud folder.Īnything stored in the Cloud folder on any version of BeerSmith (including the web version) is stored online as part of your account. Similarly the local recipe data on our mobile phone app is stored on the phone. ![]() So if your recipes are in ‘My Recipes’ then they are stored on your computers hard drive, and you should back them up periodically (see below). ![]() This is done in part for legacy reasons, but also because many home and commercial users are concerned about their data and don’t want it stored online. Our flagship BeerSmith desktop program stores all of your data in My Recipes locally on your hard drive by default. Local (My Recipe) Data vs Cloud (Web) Data While the BeerSmith Web version and cloud based data is automatically backed up on the sever nightly, your local data is not. ![]() Rarely does a week go by where I don’t receive an email from a user who has had a computer failure, lost laptop or lost phone resulting in BeerSmith data loss.
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