Feature idea: easy backup / restore

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I don’t know about you folks, but after months of creating and tweaking so many dashboards, user access, data sources, various plugins, etc., I can’t say I would be able to easily recreate all that if my server died and my data was lost. But I DO know it would take a WHILE.

So many of you might say, “well, actually, all you have to do is back up SQLLite,” or whatever - many of us have no idea how to do that, and it would be a bit different depending on what database you’re using to store your settings, or which OS you’re on (maybe).

So why not suggest either a plugin or core feature that replicates everything down to the last detail in a single file, right from the UI, which you could use to restore to a new instance of Grafana if your server died?

Related functions could include:

  • Scheduled backups
  • Email of that backup as an attachment
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Most products that use any sort of database usually never implement what you are requesting though it would be a great feature.

usually this type of stuff is done by admin or dba.

you can accomplish this type of stuff very easily using scripting language such as python

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Exactly my point!

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