Exporting data and backups

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Hello,

I can see the code snippet here Exporting data and backups ā€” DatoCMS but I donā€™t actually know how to go about using this.

Iā€™d like to take a backup of all of the data content in my project. Please can someone explain the steps?

Thank you!

2

Itā€™s a NodeJS script @steven. Paste the code into a .js file (ie. run.js), install the required dependencies which are datocms-client and request in this case with:

npm install --save datocms-client request

And then run the script with:

node run.js
3

Hi @s.verna, thank you!

Thatā€™s working perfectly :slight_smile:

In the snippet, it references allPages but looking at the records.json file It appears to export all of the different models and not just pages. Is that correct?

4

allPages simply mean ā€œpaginate all the results, and get every recordā€ :slight_smile:

5

Thank you! :slight_smile:

I donā€™t need to do a data restore, but is there a process for that also?

6

Of course itā€™s possible with our REST API, but it will be more complicated than a single generic script :slight_smile:

7

Ok, thank you thatā€™s good to know for the future!