I’m finding that Airtable does so many things right, and I want to use it in my nonprofit for client/case/volunteer management, but I’m hesitant to throw all of our eggs in that basket without the ability to locally back up the data—at least once in awhile—including attachments. It would be very valuable to us to be able to download the snapshots, and then restore from them later, if needed. (Note: I’m assuming that snapshots include attachments…that would be key)
Glad to see I’m not alone. Using air table for all my work but concerned the only backup source is with air table. The more I use it the more concerned I am that I have no other backup. Feel that this issue is being put on the long finger and after reading this I realise I’m not alone.
Hi, any updates for having the attachments being downloaded with the csv file?
I have figured out some solution for automatic download of the urls of my attachments which is provided in the csv file. But still curious to see if a master solution would be on the way…
We would be much more excited about moving out client tracking to this service if we knew there was an easy and frequent way to back up the data locally and restore it if necessary.
Is there any update on this feature? Being able to download data as a backup is a key missing feature that is preventing our company from using Airtable. Bonus points if this was something that could be automated as a downloadable zip.
But until then forget about it. It is too easy to input vast amounts of data into Airtable and then lose it. I’m not going to take that risk. Might as well keep using Excel.
I hope Airtable isn’t deliberately holding this feature back in order to coerce people into upgrading into the paid version that lets you have extended snapshots. If so that would be really stupid. I don’t mind paying for Airtable, just let me have control of my data.
I’m in need of accessing snapshot data so looking to understand this method a bit better. Can we down a view of the CSV once we’ve gone to a newer version of the base/table. So for example if snapshot 1 was last month, snapshot 2 was at the start of this month. Can I download CSVs for snapshot one without having to take my entire base back to snapshot 1? Because if I do that, then I lose all the values in the current state of my base. Perhaps I’m misunderstanding your solution so any clarification would be much appreciated.
