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Map backups: snapshots of your yard

A map backup is a copy of your whole yard: every area, no-go zone, pathway and patrol line, with a separate Yardstick copy of zone settings. Yardstick requests a safety backup when saving edits, and you can take and keep your own. Read the result: a backup can be skipped or a save can stop.

Where they are kept The robot holds the map backup; Yardstick keeps zone settings separately. Restore works on the robot whose backups you are viewing. Yarbo allows ten manual backups; its own Auto Saved entries roll separately.

Where it lives

Open the map editor and look at the Backups & restore panel in the top right.

The Backups and restore panel in the map editor, listing named backups with Keep, Restore and Rename buttons, and the robot's own rolling Auto Saved entries.
Backups & restore. A flag marks the ones you have chosen to keep.

Taking one

Type a name and press Back up. Name it for what it is, not the date: Before the new flower bed beats backup 4.

Read the safety backup result When you save a change, Yardstick requests a snapshot named YS-auto and the time. Some failures stop the save with Backup failed, nothing saved; a skipped backup can instead report Saving anyway…. Yardstick keeps the last few and retires its own oldest to stay inside Yarbo’s ten-backup limit. It never deletes one of yours.

Keeping one

Press Keep on any backup you took yourself and Yardstick will never prune it, no matter how many automatic snapshots pile up behind it. Kept backups show a flag, and deleting one asks you to confirm you meant it.

  • Keep is for backups you took

    It is not offered on the robot’s own Auto Saved entries, which show as rolling.

  • Why not

    Yarbo replaces those on its own schedule and nothing Yardstick does can stop it. Offering Keep there would be a promise we cannot keep.

  • To hold on to one of those

    Restore it, then press Back up with a name. That gives you a real backup of that map, which you can then keep.

Restoring

  • Press Restore

    It replaces your current map and drops any unsaved edits, so it asks first.

  • It checks before it acts

    Yardstick confirms the backup on the robot is still the one you clicked, by name and by when it was taken. Yarbo reuses backup numbers, so the number alone is not enough to be sure.

  • What comes back

    The robot backup restores the map. Yardstick separately compares the saved zone settings: blade height and speed, gap, edge behavior and mowing direction. If they differ, it asks Put the zone settings back? Tick the zones to restore and press Put these back. Older backups with no saved settings keep the current settings. Settings that no longer match the robot, for example after firmware changes, are left as they are.

Ten slots, shared Yarbo allows ten manual backups. Yardstick’s own pre-edit snapshots share that budget, and so does every backup you keep. If the ten are full, Yardstick does not delete your kept backups to make room. Some saves stop; others continue without a safety backup and say so. Read the result, make room in Backups & restore, and follow Saving before retrying.
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Map editor

Making the changes these back up.
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Yardstick backups

Backing up the app’s own data and settings.
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Area settings

The settings a map backup carries.
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