Backup and restore
Your logbook lives on your devices and nowhere else. That’s the point of the app, and it’s also the reason this area exists: nobody else is holding a copy for you, so the copies are yours to make.
Start with H1. Everything else assumes you know what a bundle and a destination are. If the day has already gone wrong and you’re here to put a logbook back, go to H6 — and read its Before you start before you press anything.
| Guide | What it gets you | |
|---|---|---|
| H1 | How backups work here | The model, and a status card that’s telling you something true |
| H2 | Add a backup destination | Somewhere for a backup to land. Nothing else in this area works until you’ve got one |
| H3 | Encryption and passphrases | A deliberate answer to “can anyone who finds this file read my logbook?” |
| H4 | Back up now | One backup, taken on purpose, right now |
| H5 | Automatic backups | A schedule, and an honest account of when it will actually run |
| H6 | Restore from a backup | A logbook put back, by whichever of two very different operations you meant |
| H7 | Import a profile from a backup | Your logbook onto a device that hasn’t got it — the same logbook, not a copy |
One thing worth knowing first
There’s no Backup screen. Backup is the third segment of the Import / Export / Backup panel, and only one route lands on it directly:
| From | Control | Opens on |
|---|---|---|
| Dashboard profile card → Profile Settings → ACCOUNT & DATA | Backups — Destinations, schedule, restore | Backup |
| Dashboard | the Import / Export / Backup card | Import — tap Backup |
| Logbook | ⋮ (More Actions) → Import Data or Export Data | Import or Export — tap Backup |
| Profile selector, with no profile open | + → Restore backup | the restore wizard on its own (→ H7) |
Every guide here uses the first route. The Backups tile is the row directly above Delete Profile, at the bottom of that section (→ A10).
None of this is Pro. Backups, encryption, every kind of destination and both restore modes are free at every tier.
Two messages in the app tell you to go to a screen called Backup & Export. There’s no such screen. They mean this panel.
Words this area introduces
Bundle — one backup file. .aviarc when it isn’t encrypted, .aviarc.enc
when it is. It holds one profile’s logbook database, plus every photo, scan and
document that profile refers to.
Destination — a saved place bundles get written to: a folder, your Files app, Google Drive, or a WebDAV server. It’s stored inside the profile, not on the device.
Offsite — a destination you’ve ticked as being somewhere this device can’t reach. It’s a claim you make with a checkbox, not something the app detects. Google Drive is the exception: the app counts a Drive destination as offsite on its own, whatever the box says.
Passphrase — the words that encrypt a bundle. Not the profile PIN (→ A7). Nothing anywhere can reset it.
3-2-1 — three copies of your logbook, on two kinds of storage, one of them somewhere this device can’t reach. The app scores you against it.
Merge and Replace — the two ways to restore. Merge adds a bundle to the logbook you have; Replace throws your logbook away and puts the bundle’s in its place. Choosing between them is H6’s whole job.
Scope — whether a bundle holds the one profile you had open or every profile on the device. The restore preview shows it as This profile only or All profiles.