Mobile Pass / Trip backup

Thanks Brendan,

What is it actually doing though? Moving the pass or making a copy of the pass? By simply moving it you are not removing the chance that you might lose all the trip information because it is just located on one device?
Sorry if I seem a bit thick here but I’d just like to know we have a back-up of the trip.

Planning your travel is better done elsewhere than in the Railplanner-app. Use the apps/websites of the national railways and write down the information about the trains in excel or similar. Then you add the trains as journeys in the Railplanner a few days before the departure and activate the journey just before boarding the train. 

The Railplanner works off-line and will not show any last minute changes and cancellations so you should always check the departure time with an online app/website. 

Here is some useful information from the experienced travellers in the Community regarding both planning, reservations and activation of pass and travel days. 

 Planning

The rail planner is normally not up to date, as it only is updated once a month, so to be sure of the time table you better check the timetable and availability on the websites of the national railways. The bigger national railways, like DB (Germany) SBB (Switzerland) and ÖBB (Austria) cover several countries. 

 Reservations 

Yeah, like @AnnaB says,  I also use the app just to register the trains in just minutes before boarding. With non-reservable trains (90% of all trains in Europe), you just hop on the first one you can get on.

What I do, is to put all the long-distance trains, which have been reserved, in my google agenda (and that of my fellow travellers), so everybody gets a nice notification to get on the train.

When interrailing, I also have a google spreadsheat in the cloud, to fall back on. Sometimes even an old school paper :)

I’ve booked seat reservations on nearly all of my trains so I know we’ve got seats. I think I’m just going to have to have my fingers crossed and then just not use Interrail again. It just seems too hit-and-miss!
The lack of a cloud back-up accessible on your account via the web is unforgiveable in my opinion.

Thanks for your advice though, appreciated. ;)

I never moved an active pass to another, so I actually don’t know for sure if it remembers your journeys or not.

If you compared it to just 5 years ago, where you only had a paper pass and lots of paper reservations where you had to take very good care of. In comparison to that, there’s plenty of back-up now with the mobile version and pdfs of reservations 😅

But it’s still a bit fiddly, but nothing to be scared of though. It goes smoothly in the vast majority of cases.

Most, if not all accounts of the railway companies where you can reserve seats remember these as well on your account, often transferrable in an app (their own).

But it’s not one all encompassing, simple, functional app over all of Europe. Remembering trips, reservations, tickets, and having all the real time information. But unfortunately That’s still a dream, but it shouldn’t hold you back to enjoy your interrail holidays.

Are PDFs of the reservations acceptable?

Of course they are, almost nobody has them on paper anymore.

Only for night trains it’s advisable to print them out, as the attendant usually keeps them.

OK useful. I’ll try and find out how to make PDFs of my journey bookings.
Thanks. ;)

Where did you make your seat reservations?

Mostly on the actual train company’s websites (Not Interrail).

Okay, good. If you made an account on DB or ÖBB the reservations should show in their respective apps e.g. The rest is usually sent in pdf.

Yep, I have those seat reservations as PDFs! ;)
Not the tickets themselves though as these are all on the Interrail App on my phone.