Advanced] Creating and Saving Sets of Snapshots

[Advanced] Creating and Saving Sets of Snapshots

If you right-click on the entry list, under the menu commands with labels starting with “Apply action to ... entries”, there are commands labelled “Create instant full snapshot backup”. These allow you to save text, HTML or XML ‘snapshots’ for either all entries, or subsets of entries.

This can be very useful for e.g. programmers/administrators for helping to compare and review changes to the entire database before and after, say, running a Lua script that does some data remodeling, as it can be used to help check and verify that the output of the entries remains the same (and thus that your script didn’t ‘break anything’). In this case the comparison would be done using tools outside of the software (e.g. Total Commander’s text/folder comparison).

An editor may also use this to help save sets of ‘snapshots in time’ to help compare and review entries against past ‘historical’ versions of your entries. These snapshots in this case are saved as external files and not ‘attached’ the database in anyway.