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eduardo_85
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Repository for Reports created with PowerBI Service

Hi all,

 

With PowerBI Service (web), my users are creating their own Reports and Dashboards and storing them in workspaces. 

 

Is there a way to have a GIT repository or similar connected to PowerBI Service, so that we can always have a backup of these Reports and Dashboards created with PowerBI Service?

 

I would like to have a backup of this Reports/Dashboards, so in case some user accidentally deletes a Report/Dashboard, I would just restore it from the backup.

 

Thanks,

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ibarrau
Super User
Super User

Hi. If they create the reports in Service I don't think you can automatically have a backup. You can consider to teach them to use Power Bi desktop in live connection with a Power Bi Service Dataset. That way you can do some continious integration with devops. However I don't think they would like to learn all of that. 

I recommend you to keep it simple for them. Let them use Desktop and sharepoint/onedrive or any drive so you can have versioning. 

 

You can always do a manual job downloading the reports from Service and create your repository.

 

About dashboards you can't version them.

 

Regards,


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V-lianl-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @eduardo_85 ,

 

Refer to this:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Can-I-back-up-protect-reports-in-the-Power-BI-Service/td-p/... 

Someone has submitted this feature request here, please vote it up:

Backup your report and dashboard in case someone accidentally drop or modify your report or dashboar...

Recycle Bin in Power BI Service

 

Best Regards,
Liang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

ibarrau
Super User
Super User

Hi. If they create the reports in Service I don't think you can automatically have a backup. You can consider to teach them to use Power Bi desktop in live connection with a Power Bi Service Dataset. That way you can do some continious integration with devops. However I don't think they would like to learn all of that. 

I recommend you to keep it simple for them. Let them use Desktop and sharepoint/onedrive or any drive so you can have versioning. 

 

You can always do a manual job downloading the reports from Service and create your repository.

 

About dashboards you can't version them.

 

Regards,


If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Happy to help!

LaDataWeb Blog

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