As far as I can tell, the only way to back-up your hosted feature layers is to go to each one's "item details" page and click "export" and download the FGDB. What if I have 50 hosted feature layers? I have to go to each one individually and perform that work flow.
Can Esri implement a "back-up" button or a "download all" button?
For backing up web maps and apps, I don't think I have any options, at least not built in. How about some tools built in for this too?
Backup and recovery facilities are essential for an enterprise deployment.
The same for Portal for ArcGIS. Pushing Portal for enterprise needs a fully working backup/restore of the content (not the configuration). I cannot tell my users to redeploy each hosted feature, this is a no go.
This is definitely something we would like to see implemented.
They recently blogged about manually backing up individually: Back-up data in ArcGIS Online
Unfortuntely, there was no mention of a plan to implement portal-wide backups.
So, I have been thinking about this. I think that a better business choice for ESRI would be to NOT let customers have an easy way to download their whole data set. This would make it too easy to leave if you ever wanted to. I feel like this will never be implemented. So, make a way to back it all up online. At least that way when our users accidentally delete an item or a feature we could get it back.
Thanks, Yes I did come across this post..
I disagree. The best business choice is to give your customers what they want. If you do that, they won't leave your platform. Having a way to back it all up online doesn't solve anything. The point of being able to back it up is to get it outside of the ArcGIS Online ecosystem so that if you can control where your backups are hosted.
Now, if Esri wants to have their own proprietary backup file, that would be fine with me as long as I could use that backup file to do either of the below:
I wish I had a backup of my storymap that I just deleted by accident 😞
If you think about this even further it makes even more sense for ESRI to implement some sort of AGO archiving feature. It should be a one click button to enable archiving for AGO hosted features. Upon doing so we agree to the upgraded storage fees for the delta table generation / storage. ESRI gets to utilize more Organizational credits for the storage of these features that have archiving enable.
It would also alleviate the hurdle of moving to AGO. Right now I have production level data in AGO as a hosted feature layer, which is now totally disconnected from my on-premise environment. I'm currently writing a script to ingest the REST end point of the AGO hosted feature (passing in the token along with the service URL). This will fail though if ESRI migrates my features into a new rest End-point. It also doesn't handle relationships well (attachments are stored in a related table in AGO).
ESRI give us archiving in AGO! We want it!! We will pay you the storage fees!! I promise
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