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DavidMoss
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10 years ago

backup & recovery

After creating Power BI (PBI) datamodel & dashboards on PBI Desktop and publishing (some via content packs) what are our backup and recovery options?   Conscious that end users create their own bes...
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deepu299
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8 years ago

We have asked this question to Microsoft and they mentioned that there is no strategy to take a backup, to migrate between tentants and to recover. This is definitely a need for any project. One thing we are trying to do and asking users to do is to connect or build the model in Power BI desktop, build any reports in desktop and publish to the service (We have 2 tenants and no way to migrate code between them). This way we minimize the risk as we have backups saved. There will definitely be a rework when we accidentally delete the content but atleast there is some backup to start with. Dashboards and Security part need to be done again. 

 

Microsoft should think of something to backup the code from Service so customers can atleast maintain the backups on premises. 

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mz180w
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8 years ago

Unfortunately, developing reports in Desktop, then publishing to Web Service is the only option to accomodate for the lack of a backup/recovery strategy.

 

So then collaborative report development means managing multiple copies of the PBIX amongst the report developer community - with each PBIX / Dataset named differently.

 

Takes me back to the days of networking files & applications by sharing floppy disks amongst the collection of IBM AT PCs (i.e old skool style!).