Import, export and backup

Who can use this: Grow, Scale and Enterprise plans. Needs permission to manage content types.

Data Center keeps copies of your CMS data and brings data in from files. Open CMS, then Data Center. The sidebar selects all types or one content type.

Take a snapshot

1. Open the All Snapshots tab and start the snapshot wizard.

2. Choose all types, or a single type.

3. Pick a format. All types use JSON or SQL. A single type can use JSON, CSV, SQL or ZIP.

4. Run it. The snapshot appears in the list when it is ready.

From the list, use the row actions to Download, Restore or Delete a snapshot.

Restore a snapshot

1. Choose Restore on a row.

2. Check the dry run, which shows what would be restored without changing anything.

3. Click Run Restore.

Schedule backups

1. Open the Schedules tab.

2. Choose the scope (All types or One type) and the format. A single type can also include relations and media.

3. Set the frequency: Daily, Weekly or Monthly, at a time you choose. A monthly backup runs on a day from 1 to 28.

4. Set the retention, which is how many snapshots this schedule keeps (1 to 500), and save.

Use Run now to run a schedule at once.

Import data

Open the Data Inflow tab. Choose one of these:

• Quick import everything (ZIP): upload a ZIP made by an export. It rebuilds the content type and loads the entries and media.

• Type Blueprint Intake: bring back the structure of a type (fields and relations) from a JSON file or an exported SQL file.

• Entries / Backup Intake: load entries from a JSON, CSV or SQL file into a selected type.

For entries, click Quick Import to send the file as it is, or Open Wizard for JSON and CSV files to preview the rows, map columns to fields and validate before you import.

With relations also restores links between entries. Rebuild structure recreates the type's table if it is missing. Upsert by updates existing entries that match the field you name, for example id, instead of adding duplicates.

Troubleshooting

• "Type not found and archive has no type blueprint": import the structure first, or upload a ZIP made by an export.

• "Type slug in archive does not match selected type": pick the type that the file was exported from.

Related

• Content types and fields

• Write and publish entries