Backup content to your S3 bucket
You can configure manual or automatic daily/weekly (depending on your subscription plan) 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.
The backup file contains stories(content), releases, scheduled content, Installed apps, assets, component definitions (schemas), Collaborators, roles and preview templates for your space. It will NOT contain presets, components groups, datasources and space settings.
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.
Storyblok backups app
Go to space settings {1} page, click on the Backup & Restore tab {2}, and click on the Backup tab {3}, add your S3-bucket name and your AWS Role ARN.
Storyblok backup app settings
Sign in to your Amazon Cloud formation and create a stack in
us-east-1region. 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
creating a stack with Amazon Cloud formation
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.
Specifying stack details on AWS
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}.
After creating a stack, you'd see the newly create stack and a role as seen in the image below.
Getting Amazon ARN from stack
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.
Backing up on Storyblok
Restore your backup
To restore a backup, select the Restore tab {1}, you can click "Path to backup file" to show the latest backups, choose one of them and click "Restore Now" {2}.
You can choose to restore specific entities, create a new space or overwrite your current space when you restore.
Restoring S3 backups on Storyblok
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".