[irober02]

How are you backing up?

I've been syncing to a MS-Windows install and then backing THAT up to a local network share I have for backups.

I'd like to move MobileSheets entirely to Android but I can't see how to backup to a local drive.

I don't want to chew up more space on my device and I don't want to use Dropbox or OneDrive.

I have a local server that I can access via Samba shares or sftp but MobileSheets doesn't offer me an obvious path.

Any suggestions?

Ian Roberts

[wthalliii]

Must not be many people with this problem since this message is over 2 years old and no one has answered you. 

I have been using Mobile Sheets on Microsoft Surface Pro's, but I just bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra. That's mainly because our church music app runs on Android or Apple. I was running it on Windows with the android environment, but Microsoft has removed that feature. So, I reverted to using the Android version of Mobile sheets.

Anyway, to the question of backup. Your idea of syncing to a Windows install and then backing up from there sounds like a good idea. I have had problems running a sync with my music collection, though. I have > 11K songs, and 38G of files. I haven't tried a sync for a while because they took forever and tended to hang up. What I have been doing is to back up the tablet to a USB flash drive, and then sneaker netting it over to a drive on my network.

I found your message because I want to be able to write the backup to a windows share directly from Mobile Sheets.

[itsme]

You can backup locally on the Android device, to the local storage, to an SD card or a USB stick.
Install the free TotalCommander for Android https://www.ghisler.com/android.htm on the Android device
Install TotalCommander plugin(s) depending on the destination where you want to store your backups. Plugins exist for GoogleDrive, OneDrive, LAN (Windows shares, snmp) and others.
Then you can use TotalCommander to copy or move your backups from the local storage of your Android device to a shared folder of your Windows device via snmp, to a GoogleDrive, OneDrive or wherever.
It's a bit more effort because you need to do two steps and you need enough storage space on the Android device, but it has the advantage that you get two backups, one to carry around on the Android device and one on your final storage destination.
It's less complicated than it sounds. I do that frequently.

What also should work: install the free MobileSheets companion and run your backups from there. I did not do that by now, but it's standard and straight forward, so I would not expect any problems. I'll give it a try myself soon.