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Created by Mark Stuart-Walker
Created on Sep 13, 2024

Periodic backup of entity fields to csv files

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Who would benefit?

Anyone who has experienced inadvertent entity deletion and has had to manually create data.

What impact would it make?

It would provide a "safety net" for entity field values

How should it work?

Periodically (each day) an extension iterates all instances of an entity type and exports the field values into a csv file which is stored as a Resource entity (or saves to an Azure folder)

Configuration would be needed for

  • Entity Type

  • Scheduled Period

  • Filename and timestamp format

  • Azure storage credentials

Why is it needed?

The data retention backups are fine but they require the complete database to be recovered which is likely to extreme.

This is a simpler approach which would provide files that an administrator could use to re-create or regress entities.


This is not a "recycle bin" recovery approach, it would require an administrator to recover appropriate files and subset the particular entities to be recovered.

It would not re-instate links but a similar approach might list the linked entities.


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