Backup for OneNote App for Windows 10

Thank you HidMov !

Thank you very much for sharing your procedure.  The screenshots were very helpful.  After a few tries because my library was using Classic UI, I successfully emulated your procedure.

In case anyone else wants to try this, please be aware that if your Library is still using the "Classic User Interface", as mine was, you won't see the Copy To option at the top menu.  You're on the Classic User Interface if there's a black bar across the top of your web page, instead of a pale blue bar.

To change your user interface, you have to go to Library Settings / Advanced Settings / List Experience, and select "New Experience" (which is also known as Modern User Interface).  When you close the browser tab and re-open it, you should see the blue bar across the top, and you will have the Copy To option at the top menu.

Also, please be aware that when you copy your Notebook to a OneDrive or SharePoint folder that is syncing to your desktop, it will create a shortcut to OneNote Online with a link to the backup copy of the notebook you created by following HidMov 's procedure.  You cannot delete the ShortCut from the Synced local folder.  Windows 10 won't let you.  (I don't know if Windows 7 will let you).  If you later delete the copy of the Notebook, the sync client will delete the shortcut from the Synced local folder.  So, in effect, you can make a copy of your OneNote notebook to a different cloud based folder than the one in which it normally resides, but you cannot make an offline copy of this notebook using this procedure, so you can't archive it to offline media.

To anyone from MSFT who might be looking at this, please know that this is a patch, not a solution.  While it does allow a point-in-time copy of a cloud based notebook to another cloud based location, it relies on too much user intervention to qualify for a best practice data loss prevention technique.  I still urge you to enable automatic offline backups in OneNote App for Windows 10, with control over frequency and number of backups to maintain, similar to the capability in OneNote 2016 and prior versions.

Thank you.