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Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 5, 2018 at 09:31 PM
Jon, Steve, and Alexander,
Thanks for your feedback. I’ll try to see if I can work this out with TheBrain support.
I can definitely see the beauty of the thing. The visualisation enforces a particular type of focus on an issue, for which you can see the most immediate context (hierarchical and lateral relationships), but nothing more (although you can see other pinned or recently visited items, which is great).
This is where WorkFlowy is lacking, as long lists of things can become overwhelming, but when you zoom in on an item, you can no longer see the hierarchical context or even the siblings.
I could also make good use of the timeline view for project management purposes.
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 6, 2018 at 09:04 PM
TheBrain users,
Do you back up your TheBrain externally, and how?
I’m thinking that if one invests so much money, and then time and effort into developing a 30GB database over many years, it would be a shame to lose that for whatever reason.
I came across a user who claimed to have lost data:
https://www.reddit.com/r/hwstartups/comments/2tkbct/tools_for_project_management/co0q5ha/
and the solutions for backup suggested by the company seem kind of complicated and involved and not fool-proof:
http://forums.thebrain.com/post/backing-up-3425-8340032
What would be the most straightforward way to keep your data, and have it in some kind of usable form, should TheBrain ever shut down?
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Nov 6, 2018 at 11:52 PM
Dr Andus,
Truth is, I haven’t been backing up my brains. They live in three places, so I haven’t thought about it. But I should. That said, I just checked out the back up command and it seems pretty straight forward. I backed up a brain with 5,000 thoughts and 700 attachments. It took under a minute.
The only issue with backing up is that external attachments are not included.
Steve Z.
Posted by Jon Polish
Nov 7, 2018 at 12:24 PM
One of the major differences between 8 and 10 is that 10 uses a database system that must reside in a specific location whose path cannot exceed 50 characters. Backing up would not be a problem but restoring is. Apparently the developers are concerned about database corruption secondary to users moving databases. I have not experienced this problem with 8.
Out of curiosity, I tried backing up 10 and then continued to add data to my test database. I then restored the backup. In short, it was not pretty. Again, this was very simple with version 8.
I think TheBrain folks want you to keep your database synced with their cloud. I don’t want to do that.
There is another option that would avoid data corruption in 10. Create a Brain archive file and use that as a backup.
Jon
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 7, 2018 at 12:37 PM
Jon Polish wrote:
>I think TheBrain folks want you to keep your database synced with their
>cloud. I don’t want to do that.
>There is another option that would avoid data corruption in 10. Create a
>Brain archive file and use that as a backup.
I’m a cloud convert (as a Chromebook user), so I don’t have a problem with having my database synced.
By I guess I was thinking not only about backing up the TheBrain database to be restored with TheBrain, but also having an archival copy of the data that I could consult even if TheBrain would disappear from the face of the earth (or I would stop my subscription).
So maybe I’m talking about a scheduled, automatic export in a usable format? (Kind of like WorkFlowy, which automatically saves daily copies of its database in its own format, and as a text export, to Dropbox).