Backups and Restore

Backups and restore

Everything Chronexus knows lives in one local archive. A .nodex backup is a complete, verified copy of it: every campaign, character, document, link, relationship, image and setting that belongs to the archive.

Manual backup

1. Backup and restore → Create backup. Chronexus first waits for pending saves.
2. Choose a new file name ending in .nodex (an existing file is never overwritten).
3. Wait for Backup created and verified: every file inside is checked with SHA-256.

Periodic backups

App settings → Backup (off until you turn it on): daily, weekly or every N hours, only while Chronexus is open and idle, into Documents/Chronexus/Backup periodici or a folder you choose. You decide how many copies to keep; Chronexus deletes only periodic copies it created itself.

Restore

1. Select backup and check the preview (date, counts).
2. Replace archive replaces all current campaigns — it is not a merge.
3. Before replacing, Chronexus saves a safety copy of the current data and shows its path. To go back, restore that copy. If the safety copy fails, nothing is replaced.

Export

Export campaign creates a readable ZIP (Markdown, full JSON, images, checksums) for reading or archiving elsewhere. It is not a restore format — use .nodex for that.

Good to know

• Backups are not encrypted. Keep them somewhere private, especially in synced cloud folders.
• Limits: 32 GiB per backup; Chronexus checks free disk space first.
• Before every update Chronexus makes a verified backup automatically (see Updates).