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jerics99
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Backing up a workspace

Hi,
I am a fairly new Power BI administrator at our orgainzation, and I wonder how can I backup a workspace. I have seen that I can export the pbix file, but than only seems to inlcude the datamodel, power quesry scrips and the dashboards, but what about the reports that are built allready?

 

/Eric

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JirkaZ
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@jerics99 You can do pretty much everything what's in the admin API
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/admin

 

Regarding the data model and reports - those are contained in the PBIX. The things that are not part of the PBIX are the dataflows and the dashboards (since a dashboard is just a set of pinned tiles). 

 

 

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JirkaZ
Solution Specialist
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@jerics99 You can do pretty much everything what's in the admin API
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/admin

 

Regarding the data model and reports - those are contained in the PBIX. The things that are not part of the PBIX are the dataflows and the dashboards (since a dashboard is just a set of pinned tiles). 

 

 

This is an age old question. If we assume power BI to be an enterprise level BI app then it needed to have backup feature unfortunately it does not!!.

So your only way out is to download your pbix files to desktop [if you have thousands of them? yes that too.]. The power BI team is busy making monthly cosmetic visual updates and non-consequential tweaks.

 

However when it comes to addressing core shortcomings such as: Power BI code portability (such as meta data access), back up feature, fixing the messy gateway cluster process, providing inbuilt reporting capability (on users, data sets, reports etc), being able to have flexibility in report scheduling erc... they are not there!!!!

 

whatever improvements that fabric brings to power Bi is entangled in ever complex licensing carveouts... 

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