Save a copy of your data sources

Save a copy of your data sources for debugging or retrieving historic information in Productsup.

In certain cases, you may wish to save an exact copy of a chosen data source, before any modifications are undertaken. This could be useful for debugging or retrieving historic information.

You can save this copy to your Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage account.

Note

The backup import data feature is currently only available for the Feed URL data source.

In order to back up a data source, you should:

  1. Navigate to your site

  2. If you wish to save your data to Google Cloud Storage, you should create authentication for this. See Add OAuth authentication to external systems.

  3. Navigate to data sources

  4. Click on the settings wheel of the Feed/URL data source you wish to exclude columns from

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  5. Scroll down to content mode

  6. Click on the I/O Settings tab

  7. Choose whether you want to backup to Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage and click add

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  8. Under the Existing I/O Settings section, complete the details about saving the data in your S3 or Google Cloud Storage account

  9. Click save all settings

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