No Recent Update on Local Backup or Offline Mode?

[Marco]

Has anyone received an updates from the Airtable team on where things stand with respect to local storage backups of an entire base and being able to conduct recurring backups?

In addition, the lack of offline access is extremely concerning. It’s extremely concerning that an app that I would be relying on heavily to run my day to day practice/business could potentially be offline for whatever reason.

How are you guys/gals overcoming these limitations? Do you share these concerns and have there been any recent updates from Airtable staff directly related to this?

[zola_mzimba]

No not that I am aware. It’s still only 3.5 years since airtable informed us they were looking into this feature

[Ambroise_Dhenai]

Take a look at our recent announcement regarding local backups :slightly_smiling_face:

Unly Releases an Open Source Software for Airtable Managed backups Show and tell

Hello everyone. We use Airtable for various things at Unly, and we have always been concerned by the inability to create scheduled backups that really fit our needs. Despite the fact Airtable has its own backups/restore feature, it didn’t fit our needs. And, because Airtable holds lots of business-sensitive data, it was a very big risk for us not to be in control of the backup&restore process. So, we built a tool that is designed to perform scheduled backups automatically, and deal with backu…

However, that doesn’t answer the offline access at all.

[LW-SavvyIndie]

Seems strange to pick the same data house (AWS) as AirTable. Would make more sense to spread catastrophic risk by using a different house.

[Ambroise_Dhenai]

Technically speaking, if you host those backups in a different region, it’s quite similar to picking another provider. Might even be safer.

[Maria_Korolenko]

Hello Marco!
We’re building a solution that will allow you to automatically backup and restore Airtable’s workspaces, including bases. Here’s more information:

Rewind

Backups for Airtable

Coming SoonBackups for Airtable More collaboration doesn’t have to mean more risk. Rewind Backups for Airtable provides automatic backups and effortless

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I’d be happy to chat with you and learn how we can help you to backup more Airtable’s data!