Backup content to your S3 bucket

You can configure manual or automatic daily backups of your content and component definitions in Storyblok with the "Backups" app. This adds additional security and lets you restore the backups created on your personal Amazon AWS S3 bucket.

Setup instructions

To set up backups, you will need an Amazon AWS account and be a subscriber of Storyblok's "Team" or "Enterprise" plan. If you don't have an Amazon AWS account yet, click here to signup.

• Install the app "S3 Backups" in the Apps Directory section of Storyblok.

  

• Go to space settings {1} page and click on the Backup tab {2}, add your S3-bucket name.

• Sign in to your Amazon Cloud formation and create a stack in us-east-1 region. Under the prepare template {1}, choose "Template is ready" and under the Specify template {2}, choose "Amazon S3 URL" as the template source and copy the URL below as the Amazon template URL {3}, Click Next {4} https://storyblok-tools.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/cloudformation/backup.yml

• Input the stack name, bucket name and Storyblok space ID, it's important to note that this should be in lower case, Click Next and Next.

  

• On the review page, click on "I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources with custom names." {1} then click on "Create Stack" {2}.

• Go to "Outputs" and copy the "Role ARN" field and paste it into the "AWS ARN" field and input the name of the S3 bucket on Storyblok.

• Click on Backup now {1} to test the backup.

Restore your backup

To restore a backup you can click "Show latest backups" to show the last 5 backups, choose one of them and click "Restore Now".

You can choose to restore specific entities, create a new space or overwrite your current space when you restore.

If the backup you want to restore is older then you can insert the path you get by browsing your S3 bucket manually in the input field "Backup file".