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Export options
Currently, the following formats are supported for export (these are all unencrypted data exports!):
- JSON
- CSV
- HTML
- Markdown
- SQL (unencrypted format, suitable for loading with regular SQLite3)
Set the appropriate extension when prompted to save the exported file.
Note: only the SQL option exports the full version history. The other formats export just the current version of pages.
Also note that the .sql file is not a 'flat file' plaintext backup: rather, it's am unencrypted database you can open with a regular 'sqlite3' command or DBMS.
Note that for JSON, CSV, HTML and Markdown, only 'pages' are exported using these formats. Other data such as Documents, Time Logs, Invoices etc are not exported to these formats. Use the SQL option (or the backup option below) to obtain a complete export of all data.
Backup and Restore
If you choose the Backup option, this will export the Bouquin database in its encrypted SQLCipher format. This database cannot be read by native SQLite3, only by the SQLCipher variant (which you can install on some distributions, such as Debian).
Because it is encrypted with SQLCipher, this means you can also load such a backup into Bouquin as a way of 'importing' the database. To do this, choose the backup file from Settings as the path to the database or edit the path to the database in the configuration file directly (see below).