Here is how I go about my projects’ backups and overall peace of mind.
Right. It ain’t.
Cloud sync as a backup solution is worthless in my opinion. (It is good for sync, and sync only.)
What you need to do is set Scrivener to generate zipped/time-stamped backups.
→ Options / Backups
And then you regularly upload these backups to the cloud, somewhere like Google Drive for e.g.
Anywhere really, as long as it is not a sync folder that remains live and vulnerable to user error or system crashes.
Once the backup is uploaded to the cloud, you just forget about i…
If this may contribute a little, here is how I go about my backups :
First,
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is how I handle my snapshots.
(You can also see that my projects auto-save after 5 seconds of inactivity, so I don’t ever have to bother with a manual save per se.)
And as of the backups themselves, rather than having the operation linked to a manual save or to whenever I open and/or close a project, I use the “Back up Now” menu command.
Which I have as a button on my toolbar :
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