topic Re: Can a Hub Application be Backed Up? in ArcGIS Hub Questions

Can a Hub Application be Backed Up?

KansasDASC — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 19:31:40 GMT

We launched a Hub site this year that was the product of much development time and effort. It's highly customized within the bounds of the Hub setup and we're updating it frequently. The Hub site is a clearing house for state agencies to host their AGOL content on to make it more open and accessible. We are aware of non-Esri services like GeoJobe's Backup My Org and North Point's Backup Manager for AGOL, but neither of these services support backing up of Hub Sites/Pages/Initiatives.

Does anyone have workarounds for backing up Hub? North Point's Backup Manager will eventually support Hub backup, but their product doesn't backup other content types like vector tile layers and users/groups whereas Backup My Org does backup all other content types plus users/groups, but still doesn't support Hub backups.

We can get at the JSON of the Hub Sites/Pages/Initiatives by way of ArcGIS Assistant, but what can be done with a JSON file if Hub disappears somehow? If we accidentally delete the Hub from our organization, can the JSON be used by Esri to restore it?

Re: Can a Hub Application be Backed Up?

ChrisSchrader — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:07:28 GMT

Did you ever figure this out? I would like to make a backup of a Hub.

Re: Can a Hub Application be Backed Up?

KansasDASC — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:53:17 GMT

I have not seen any update to allow for backing up of Hub pages and initiatives. Asking LLMs just provides suggestions to back up the data and manually write down all the configuration...which isn't helpful for the need.

Re: Can a Hub Application be Backed Up?

CatrionaIllingworth_home — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:43:32 GMT

I would also be very interested in having a good back up process. We use the work-around of cloning our Hub site on a regular basis or after major updates, but that creates a lot of additional items within our ArcGIS online.