How to create Hosted feature layer backups periodically

JoseSanchez

Hello everyone,

How do you recommend to run periodical backups from a hosted feature layer ?

Several layers are editing a group of layers and we need to make backups. 

Thanks

 

Tom_Laue

Geodatabase Backups

 

I recommend adding a Tag to any content you want to backup. 

 

Then via Python script, you can download any content with that Tag to gdb and schedule the script (via Task Scheduler) to run daily or weekly as you need.

I use the tag: GDBNightlyBackup

 

import datetime
startTime = datetime.datetime.now()
TodaysDate = datetime.date.today().isoformat()
print (startTime)
##############

import arcgis
from arcgis.gis import GIS
import os

#enter AGOL sign-in credentials
gis = GIS("https://yourorg.maps.arcgis.com", "username", "password",verify_cert=False)



now = datetime.datetime.now()
folderName = now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
#print (folderName)
parent_dir = r"C:\ArcGISOnline\BackupFiles\FeatureLayers"
path = os.path.join(parent_dir, folderName)

#create folder if it doesn't exist
if os.path.isdir(path):
    pass
else:
    os.mkdir(path)
    print("Directory '% s' created" % folderName)
    

def downloadItems(downloadFormat):
    try:
        download_items = [i for i in gis.content.search(query="tags: = 'GDBNightlyBackup'", item_type='Feature Layer', 
                     max_items=-1)]
        #print(download_items)
        # Loop through each item and if equal to Feature service then download it
        for item in download_items:
            if item.type == 'Feature Service':
                print(item)
                result = item.export(f'{item.title}', downloadFormat)
                #r'file path of where to store the download'
                result.download(path)
                # Delete the item after it downloads to save on space
                result.delete()
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)

downloadItems(downloadFormat='File Geodatabase')


#############
    
endTime = datetime.datetime.now()
td = endTime - startTime
hours, remainder = divmod(td.seconds, 3600)
minutes, seconds = divmod(remainder, 60)
TimeElapsed='{:02}:{:02}:{:02}'.format(int(hours), int(minutes), int(seconds))

print ("")
print ("Done!")
print ("")
print ("Ended at " + str(endTime))
print ("Time elapsed " + str(td)) 

 

 

The result is I have backup folders every day for all the hosted content I've been downloading.