Airtable’s getting better at not being down but even if its track record was so perfect it lulled you into a false sense of security… well, if your mission-critical use case has a single point of failure, you were doing things wrong from the get-go.

only tangible step here is:

a) regularly manually backup CSVs

But how powerful are CSV outputs?

You can only output one view’s CSV at a time.

Also how much aspects of info does it retain from the configurations you made on AirTable:

Just Field Order? Even that?

I think really AirTable need to create a bespoke Local Desktop data system as per:

Or b) syndicate to another spreadsheet app.

Again, you can only really syndicate raw CSV info right? So same objections as above.

Also I don’t really understand what you mean by

Do keep in mind that moving the data back to Airtable when you’ve edited it in Google Sheets after the downtime might be a bit of a hassle.

Is the idea that you’re manually updating the Google Sheet during the downtime and then re-adding it after? AirTable Sync might help make the re-adding easier in this scenario.