Back up and restore your documents manually

You can create manual backups of your Genius Scan documents and settings.

This is most useful when you want to:

Set up a new Android device and restore your existing documents. Be careful: restoring a backup overwrites existing data.
Transfer your documents from the free Genius Scan app to Genius Scan Enterprise.
Keep a backup of your Genius Scan data to recover them if your device breaks or gets stolen. Make sure to save the backup onto another device or in a cloud service.

Want Genius Scan to back up your scans automatically? Subscribe to Genius Scan Ultra and open a Genius Cloud account to save and sync your documents on all your devices at all times.

Create a backup

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Open the Menu and tap Backup and restore.

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Tap Manual backups.

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Choose Back up your Genius Scan data to create a manual backup of your app.

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Select a destination folder and tap Save.

If you want to save the backup file on a cloud storage service, install the corresponding application on your phone so the provider shows up as a location in your file browser. Here, the file will be saved in Google Drive, under the My Drive folder.

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The backup can take several minutes or more, depending on the number of documents you have. Do not close the app during the backup operation.

Once the backup is complete, a file named with the backup day's date and a ".gs-bck" extension is created in the folder you selected. This is your backup. You can transfer this file to your computer or to another device if necessary.

Restore a backup