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Improved Backup/Restore capabilities
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Jake Toodledo Founder |
We have now greatly improved the ability to backup and later restore your own data. We have done this via the "XML Export/Import" tool in our Import/Export/Sync section. An XML export file will now contain all of the information for your tasks and subtasks.
We have also improved the XML importer. It can now restore subtasks nested properly inside their parent tasks (Pro subscribers only). The XML importer has also been optimized to allow it to process much larger import files without running out of memory. The previous limit was 200 tasks per import, but we have now tested this up to 2000 tasks per import without problems. Additionally, we have gotten the XML importer working better at importing tasks from Vitalist and Voo2do, if you want to migrate from those websites to Toodledo. While we are taking every precaution to protect your data on our servers, if you are concerned about data loss, you can periodically download the XML backup file and save all of your data to your computer. |
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TheGriff_2 |
Thanks for the new stuff! My pie in the sky would be integration with Amazon S3 during a scheduled nightly backup. But for now this is great. ;-)
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Jake Toodledo Founder |
Yup, we're thinking about that.
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TheGriff_2 |
Posted by Toodledo:
Yup, we're thinking about that. Actually I just thought of a possible way using WGET. By any chance is there a way for me to pass my login credentials in a WGET command? What I'd envision doing is a nightly WGET to my DropBOX folder which then also gets backed up to S3. I'd actually have three layers of backup, my laptop, DropBox and S3. Maybe something could be added to the xml.php script to allow tokens for credentials (if they're not already there)? |
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Jake Toodledo Founder |
You'll need to find a way to pass the cookies through in order to sign into your account. Someone on these forums posted a link to an example that used CURL instead of WGET, but I can't find it now.
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Claudio |
Posted by Toodledo:
An XML export file will now contain all of the information for your tasks and subtasks. Great! This provides additional peace of mind. One more reason to rely on Toodledo for essential data. (I've scheduled a weekly export.)I downloaded the file and I see that subtasks are linked through the "parent" field. Also, I noticed that the XML file has the "Timer" value for tasks that are currently being timed. Interesting. Not sure how to use this info (I rarely use Timers) but perhaps others will find it useful. |
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lite1 |
Thanks, as usual TD team is on top of things.
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Linden |
That's a whole bunch of requested features delivered in one quickly-implemented update. You're totally amazing!
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Anders |
Posted by Toodledo:
An XML export file will now contain all of the information for your tasks and subtasks. We have also improved the XML importer. It can now restore subtasks nested properly inside their parent tasks (Pro subscribers only). Awesome! My subtasks thank you :) |
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gothick |
Excellent news. I was already doing my own scheduled backup, so it's nice to know the export will be more complete now. And as someone who imported hundreds of tasks in from a different system (and ran into the task limit), it's nice to know that it'll now cope if I ever have to use it again...
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matt |
How to get it with wget:
wget -O /dev/null --quiet --no-check-certificate --save-cookies cookies.txt --post-data '[email protected]&pass=xxxxxxxx' https://www.toodledo.com/signin.php wget --quiet --load-cookies cookies.txt http://www.toodledo.com/xml.php rm cookies.txt |
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TheGriff_2 |
Thanks Matt! You just let me check of a research task I'd created to do this.
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jon |
Any chance the Firefox add-on could mirror to SQLite?
http://gadgetopia.com/post/6639 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5817 I'm sure you see where I'm going with this. :) |
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