Everything that you create and store with Obsidian is located inside your Vault’s folder. If you saved ‘The Novelist‘ and opened it from your ‘Downloads‘ folder, that’s where everything is.
There are many options when it comes to backing up your files or syncing them to a cloud server, and you can choose whatever works better for you:
1. Backing up your Vault manually
In Obsidian’s Settings → File Recovery, you’ll find that I have already enabled the app to constantly and automatically take new snapshots every minute. Those snapshots are saved for a whole week before they get replaced with the newer ones.
But while those snapshots are a great way to restore changes, it’s not enough if something happens, let’s say, to your disk drive, and it suddenly dies. So for that, you can copy the whole folder once you’re done, and paste it on another drive, a cloud platform, etc.
2. Automatically syncing to Dropbox, OneDrive, or Google Drive
The best way to automatically sync all your Vaults across all your devices is by getting a premium tier from Obsidian. If your budget is set to zero, you can use free plugins such as the Remotely Save, Google Drive Sync, or Self-hosted LiveSync to make the whole process automatic.
Install a plugin: Go to Obsidian’s Settings → Community Plugins → Browse → search for any plugin, click on it, and then click “Install” and “Activate“.
3. Automatic backups using cloud desktop apps
If you install the desktop app of any cloud app, including the likes of Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and Terabox, a folder with the platform’s name will appear in your ‘File Manager’, where you can quickly access all your files that are stored in the cloud.
Just paste your Vault’s folder there, and then launch Obsidian and open the folder as Vault. Whatever you do, all your chances will be stored automatically in your cloud account.
