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Welcome to Backup & Restore
Your gig business data is irreplaceable — trips, revenue, expenses, time entries, and accounting records built up over months or years. TrakMiles Pro backs everything up to your personal Google Drive automatically, so you never lose a single entry. Whether you switch phones, reinstall the app, or just want peace of mind, your data is always one tap away from a full restore. In this tutorial, you'll walk through 6 steps covering manual backups, automatic scheduling, and restoring your data.
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Open Backup & Restore
From the Dashboard, tap the ⋮ menu on the clock card and select Backup & Restore. The screen shows three sections — Manual Backup with a "Backup Now" button and your last backup time, Automatic Backup with scheduling controls, and a Restore section listing your available backups from Google Drive. Everything is stored privately on your own Google Drive — no third-party servers.
📍 Dashboard → ⋮ → Backup & Restore
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Back Up Now
Tap the "Backup Now" button to create an immediate backup. A progress indicator shows while your data is uploaded to Google Drive as a JSON file. When complete, the "Last backup" timestamp updates. Use manual backup anytime — before switching phones, after a big day of driving, or just for peace of mind.
📍 Backup & Restore → Backup Now
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Set Up Automatic Backups
Toggle Automatic Backup on and choose your frequency — Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, or Monthly. Enable the Wi-Fi only option to save mobile data. Backups run in the background even when the app is closed. TrakMiles keeps your last 10 backups and automatically removes older ones. Set it to Daily and never think about it again.
📍 Backup & Restore → Automatic Backup
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View Your Backups
Scroll down to the Restore section to see all your available backups from Google Drive. Each backup shows the date and time it was created, the file size, and the number of trips it contains. Your most recent backup appears at the top. Up to 10 backups are kept — automatic backups clean up older ones to save space.
📍 Backup & Restore → Restore Section
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Restore from Backup
Tap any backup to start a restore. Choose your restore mode — Replace All deletes your current data and does a full restore from the backup. Merge keeps your existing data and adds anything that's missing — it detects duplicates automatically so nothing gets counted twice. Use Replace when setting up a new phone. Use Merge when you want to fill in gaps without losing recent work.
📍 Backup & Restore → Tap Backup → Choose Mode
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What Gets Backed Up
TrakMiles Pro backs up everything — every trip with full GPS track points, all time clock entries, every revenue and expense entry, your complete chart of accounts, all vendors and payors, your vehicles with odometer readings, and your dashboard preferences and settings. All of it stored privately on your Google Drive account — not on our servers, not shared with anyone. Your data is yours.
📍 Your Google Drive → App Data (private)