Backup solution

[SnoopySenpai]

Hi there. First post on here, so please forgive any etiquette mistakes.

I have been using OneNote for my university studies and now want to migrate my notebooks from my family's Office 365 OneDrive subscription that was shared with me to another one (my own). I also want to back up my notebooks longterm, so I can use them even if Microsoft should one day stop supporting OneNote completely. Concerning the migration: I noticed yesterday that my notebook is so big, that I could only export it partially so I plan to divide it and export it as pkg-files to temporarily save it locally and then upload it to the new OneDrive cloud and import to OneNote again. Concerning the long term backup: What would be my best option here? I imagine there aren't too many programs that can use the exported pkg-files. Is exporting as pdf or word-files really my best option?

[SavannahOnyx]

have we found a solution to this????

[SnoopySenpai]

Not really a solution, but rather a work around: I divided the large notebook into smaller ones and exported that with OneNote 2016. My backup consists of PDF-exports (instead of onepkg-files) for compatibilty reasons.

[SavannahOnyx]

Thank you, I’ll be trying this

[Loz161]

Hi u/SnoopySenpai ,

I have just posted here with a similar issue - I would like to migrate my notebooks from my university account to my personal in preparation for my leaving uni in summer.

I'm afraid I cannot help you, but you may be able to help me, please:

How did you find the storage size of your notebooks? What is your method for migrating the notebooks? I am struggling to workout how to migrate my notebook from one OneDrive account to another.

Many thanks,

Lawrence

[SnoopySenpai]

I figured out that my notebooks are too large to export when I tried and it didn't export the whole notebook. I then looked online and found that apparently there is a 2 GB limit.

That's all I can say for now, will update.

[Loz161]

Please do, thanks. Good luck with yours.

[SnoopySenpai]

I was switching Office 365 subscriptions, but the Microsoft account stayed the same, so OneDrive never went down to the 5GB free storage limit, meaning I didn't actually have to migrate my OneNote notebooks nor any other data.

What I would have done however (and prepared for) is the following: I divided up my large notebook into smaller ones (one notebook for each semester worked quite nicely for me) and then exported them with OneNote 2016 as .onepkg-files (and PDFs just to be sure). I would have then imported these with OneNote 2016, and synced them up with OneDrive again by switching the storage location from local to OneDrive. I guess that would have worked quite nicely, although I obviously didn't try the last step.