Is there a tool or application in AGOL to schedule backups periodically of a hosted feature layer

Question

Good morning

Is there a tool or application in AGOL to schedule backups periodically of a hosted feature layer?

I would like to backup daily 3 hosted feature layers.

Thanks

PeterKnoop · Answer

As others have noted, an ArcGIS Notebook is an easy way to automate backups of hosted feature layers as file geodatabases.

Depending on your requirements, you might want to backup your data to an external system, so that you have a backup, should something happen to ArcGIS Online. For example, you could backup your hosted feature layers to Dropbox, as illustrated in this example Notebook: Backup to Dropbox. You could just as easily use Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, or another storage option, by substituting the appropriate code for your preferred storage solution.

RhettZufelt · Answer

I use the code that @Tom_Laue posted here.

I like it as it only backs up HFS's that have the appropriate tag so I have more control of what gets backed up.

I also use the JSON backup script from the same post for certain items.

R_

MobiusSnake · Answer

Not really unfortunately, but at a high level it does this:

* I have a hosted feature layer with a table that acts as a backup list, each hosted feature layer to be backed up has a row in this table with the layer's Item ID (this could also be achieved by a list in the code)
* The notebook reads this configuration table to find all the Item IDs
* For each Item ID, it gets the item from the content manager and then calls export()

For logging, I use another hosted feature layer table with a string field and a timestamp.  (I also have a dashboard for displaying/filtering logs, as well as email notifications for any errors above a certain severity, but those parts are nice-to-haves, not really necessary.)