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Gerelyn67's avatar
Gerelyn67
New Member
5 months ago

Power BI Backup solution

Do you know a good Power BI Backup solution for our customer? Our preference leans toward a SaaS solution. Thanks
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AntoineW's avatar
AntoineW
Super User
5 months ago

There is no native "one-click" back-up for individual power bi reports.

Some strategies I see are:

  • use Version Control : you can switch your .pbix file to .pbip (Power BI Project) files and using Git or Azure DevOps integration. This helps you track all changes and rolling back.

  • Cloud Storage: You can also save your .pbix files to a SharePoint or OneDrive to leverage their built-in version history. It's easy way but it's more complexe to maintain when you have version_1, ..., version_finale... but it's an option if you want to keep all history of the evolution of your reporting. 

  • Manual/Scripted Backups: Some teams use Python scripts or Power BI REST APIs to automatically copy reports to a Data Lake.

I found a discussion about that : https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerBI/comments/1l1kn1j/what_is_your_backup_strategy_for_power_bi_report/

 

Hope it can help you !

Best regards,

Antoine