How To keep Production and Development PBIRS on prem in sync. Move all RDL and PBIX files

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The subject is basically it. I would like to find a way to Copy all PBIX, RDL, Excel and PDF files from Production into a development.&nbsp;&nbsp;Powershell or C# would be prefered/&nbsp;Thanks,Sam

d_gosbell · Answer

Anonymous&nbsp;wrote:
I've also tried&nbsp;Out-RsRestFolderContent which appear to download PBIX files, but errors out on a linked report or anything that isn't in this list:
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We only support items which are of type Report, DataSet, DataSource, Mobile Report or Power BI Report

Sorry I checked our code and it was the out-rsrestfoldercontent cmdlet that we are using. But I also forgot that I actually manually patched our version so that it only writes a warning, not an error when it comes across an unsupported type.
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if you are interested I've attached the file I patched where altered lines 85-94 to add a try/catch block. This file lives in the&nbsp;ReportingServicesTools\Functions\CatalogItems\Rest folder where ever you've installed the module.

d_gosbell · Answer

I would suggest you look at the ReportingServicesTools powershell module (see https://github.com/microsoft/ReportingServicesTools)
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You should be able to use out-rsfoldercontent to copy everything from prod to a drive somewhere, then use write-rsfoldercontent to put those files back up to dev

anonymous · Answer

Thanks, I'll check it out.&nbsp;

anonymous · Answer

I've tried to use&nbsp;Out-RsFolderContent, but&nbsp; this is skipping Power Bi Files. Is there something I'm missing?

anonymous · Answer

I've also tried&nbsp;Out-RsRestFolderContent which appear to download PBIX files, but errors out on a linked report or anything that isn't in this list:&nbsp;We only support items which are of type Report, DataSet, DataSource, Mobile Report or Power BI Report

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