Automated backups for Pleco flashcards on Android

[Giraffe]

I'm wondering if anyone has found a way of doing automatic backups of the flashcard database? I know I can manually export an XML file to Dropbox (and then, because Dropbox on Android doesn't seem to do anything automatically, I have to manually do a sync).

I'm thinking I might be able to use Tasker, but before I get bogged down in something complicated I'm wondering if there's a more simple and obvious solution that I'm overlooking.

 

[leoninto]

You may want to investigate dropsync. It does scheduled syncs of your dropbox folder, but only folders you specify to avoid large bandwidth bills.

 

[markv]

I was wondering if there is still no automatic way? Just lost all cards and progress when my phone died and would like to prevent that from happening again.

EDIT: solution down here

 

[mikelove]

Not one built into Pleco, but pretty much any system that can back up specific files from your SD card should work.

 

[markv]

I can look for an app that automates that, but wouldn't I still need to export a file to the SD manually every time?

 

[mikelove]

No, the Pleco database itself is stored there - /Android/data/com.pleco.chinesesystem/files/databases/

 

[markv]

Maybe someone has a suggestion for such a program (that automatically periodically backs up a specific file to some cloud) for Android?

GCloud backup seemed the one that matches that, but I can't select specific files (and /Anroid/data isn't included by default), and I can't create a hard- or symbolic link.

 

[markv]

Figured it out, there's a setting called "File storage location" in general settings which can be set to custom. Then in an app like GCloud you can add pqb extension and it will create backups. Maybe set it to weekly to not run out of space to quickly.

A little puzzle but much better than losing all my custom flashcards!