Data, privacy and trust

Export and import a workspace

Take your data with you.

About 4 minutes

You can export a whole workspace, and import one.

Steps

  1. Open Settings → Export & Import (needs the export capability).
  2. Request the export and wait — a large workspace takes time.
  3. Store it somewhere appropriate. It contains your business data.

You're done when you hold an export you could actually restore from.

When to take one

  • Before anything destructive — a reset, a BYODB switch, a bulk delete.
  • On a schedule, if your own policy requires it.
  • Before handing a workspace to someone else.

Gotchas

  • An export is a snapshot, not a live backup. It ages from the moment it is made.
  • It contains customer data. Treat it with the care that implies — an export in a shared drive is a data incident waiting to happen.
  • Exporting does not pause the workspace. Work continues; the snapshot is of that moment.

Checked against

  • endpoints/workspace/export_GET.ts
  • endpoints/workspace/import_POST.ts