+3Hi Everyone,
Many of us have faced a situation when Airtable suddenly goes down. Since our platform Softr is also heavily dependent on Airtable, we’ve prepared a brief guide on what steps you can take when faced with such a situation. Hope it’s useful.
Cheers,
Narek
+17Airtable’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.
+7only 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.
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