# Backing Up and Restoring Your Data

The following pages show you how to back up your data to your computer and how to copy the backed-up data back into your SongBook+ (or onto another device).

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**WARNING!**

Regularly backing up your data is important!

In the following situations, for example, you will be glad you did:

* Your iPad is defective.
* Your iPad was stolen.
* An error in the file system has damaged the SongBook+ database file.
* After an update of SongBook+, the database was adapted to the new software version, but you still need a database for an older SongBook version.
* A software bug has destroyed the database.
* You regret self-made changes to your data and want to revert to a state from a few weeks ago.
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A complete backup from the iPad also includes SongBook+ and its associated data.\
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In case of loss or defect of your iPad, you can quickly restore a replacement iPad along with your data from such a backup.
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For other above-mentioned reasons, where a slightly older version of the data is needed, that is not enough!\
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Especially with the standard automatic iCloud backup, it's quite possible that the desired state of the data has already been replaced by another automatic backup and then already contains the faulty data.
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