title: Backup/Restore of notes in Notes.app, i.e. stored in iCloud (iOS, Mac OS X Mountain Lion)
body: <p>I wish to make a regular backup of my notes stored on my iPhone, iPad and Mac OS in the standard Notes.app. Unfortunately since Apple moved these from their standard IMAP format to a database format (and added a separate app) this is close to impossible.</p>
  
  <p>I currently have over 200 notes and growing. I suppose they are stored in a standard database format and get synced to iCloud and pushed to all devices.</p>
  
  <p>Notes seems to store its data in this path:</p>
  
  <p>"Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes/"</p>
  
  <p>If anyone of you can reliable read, and perhaps even backup/restore this database, then please comment.</p>
  
  <p>There is an Apple KB article <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4910?viewlocale=en_US&amp;locale=en_US" rel="noreferrer">HT4910</a> that deals with this issue, which proves of little help. In fact their method complicates issues and is very unelegant for multiple backups.</p>
  
  <p>Time Machine, Apple's own built-in backup solution is also of little help as it seems to skip backup and allow no restore for notes.</p>
  
  <p>I'd be grateful if someone could peruse this and come up with solutions, which would be appreciated certainly by many of the growing community of iCloud users.</p>