There is no system in place powerful enough to protect you from accidentally or misguidedly deleting your own stuff. Now, if even you’re not worried about Evernote causing you a headache (and they certainly have a good record for data reliability and security), you should worry about yourself.

The only way you can ever be absolutely beyond-a-doubt certain that your Evernote notebooks are really safe is if you back them up yourself. Syncing isn’t backup though and, despite the fact that there are safeguards built into the Evernote software against this, in the absolutely worst case scenario that can befall any synchronized system, the remote file store can be wiped and the local file store can follow. Your data is synced, rather efficiently at that, between your local devices and the Evernote servers. The principle reason is because the current Evernote arrangement isn’t actually a backup system, it’s a syncing system.

There are several reasons why you would want to (and should) backup your Evernote notebooks.

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