How to Download / Restore files from file manager in bulk?

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Hello,

  1. I know that I can export my Bubble application

  2. I know that I can download database tables in bulk, for instance using this plugin: Plan B Backups.io Plugin | Bubble

  3. However, how about the files stored in the file manager? If I need to restore my app, I will also need the files:

a. How can I download them? (Besides downloading them one by one)

b. How can I upload them again so that each file is still available only to the user that created it?

Thanks

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No way I know of :frowning:

The best idea I have is to design your App in a way so that you can create the functionality yourself. A good pattern to use with Files & Images in Bubble is to have a table that stores your uploaded file metadata. Then with this table, you have the information, in particular, the file URL to Bubble S3 storage and Bubble User owner, attached Thing - with that information, you reconstruct your database. Then you could make a script to download it all.

What I am working on with Plan B is one-click database migrations - ie create the schema & copy the data & option sets into an external DB (eg Supabase). This works nicely.

But as you are pointing out - you still have everything in your File storage to worry about. And at the point you are starting to worry about things like “What if I lost some or all my file storage or it got corrupted…” you probably have many Gigs of file store data to recover.

So my thinking for this Plan B is to build into one-click;

  • is examining the Bubble database’s Image and File types,
  • get the Bubble S3 URL, and grab the bytes and stick it in another s3 storage (Supabase, Xano all have their own S3 buckets).
  • Then create in a table, the additional metadata of the New Storage URL (see why the file meta table above was a good idea) - so you have all the information to reconstruct your database. (old Bubble storage URL, and new storage URL) with a little bit of SQL.

I think this is possible and completes the circle of getting ALL your data backed up in a useful way.

The reason I mention it in so much detail is that maybe some smart folks reading this will think … - “Actually Lindsay there is a much easier way - why don’t you just …” and save me a few days tinkering :slight_smile:

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Hello Lindsay,

Thank you for your answer. I’m not sure I understand. Do you offer a way to download all files stored in the file manager with one click?

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