How to backup and restore Jupyter notebooks and settings?

Published on Aug. 22, 2023, 12:18 p.m.

To backup and restore Jupyter notebooks and settings, you can follow these steps:

  1. Backup Notebooks: Go to the directory where the Jupyter notebooks are stored and copy them to a backup location.
  2. Backup Configuration: If you have made any custom configurations to Jupyter, you can back up the configuration files. The location of the configuration files depends on the operating system you’re using. Here are the default locations of the configuration files:

  3. Linux/Mac: $HOME/.jupyter/

  4. Windows: C:\Users\USERNAME\.jupyter\

  5. Restore Notebooks: To restore your Jupyter notebooks, copy them back to the directory where Jupyter looks for them.

  6. Restore Configuration: To restore the Jupyter configuration, copy the backed-up configuration files back to their original locations.

Note that these steps assume that you have a backup of your notebooks and configuration. It is always a good practice to regularly back up your important files to prevent data loss.

In summary, to backup and restore Jupyter notebooks and settings, you need to backup the notebooks and the Jupyter configuration files, and then copy them back to their original locations when you need to restore them.

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