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Process for Trello automated backups AND restores of boards, cards, and card comments

Jennifer Leigh

Our little start-up is using Trello for several mission critical functions. We just had a little scare with some minor data loss that pointed out how catastrophic it could be to lose a trello board, so I came to the site to find out how to pay you money for a robust backup solution.

I am stunned this doesn't seem to be a solved problem.

I'm looking at third party options and also at rolling our own backup/restore system, but want to be sure that I'm not missing something before I either pay someone else or put development cycles into a homebrew solution. We love your product and are prepared to pay for an official, supported solution. How is this not something that already exists? It's clear from the proliferation of git repositories and third party plug-ins that many people need this functionality.

Is there really no Atlassian supported backup AND restore solution for Trello boards?

Thanks!

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Iain Dooley

@Jennifer Leigh this is a fantastic write up and example based on Google Apps Script/Sheets:

http://www.littlebluemonkey.com/blog/trello-backup-30

Ian's work has been the inspiration for all the automation stuff I do with Google Apps Script and Trello, and was the basis for Trellinator:

https://trello.com/integrations/#trellinator

Google Apps Script generally is a great match for creating Trello automations. The combination of Google and Trello is really powerful.

Jennifer Leigh

That looks like an awesome backup system, but unless I'm missing something there's no restore functionality. I need both. :-)

Iain Dooley

@Jennifer Leigh yeah you'd need to extract the info you wanted -- his vibe there is more about disaster recovery for if Trello disappears.

If you wanted a solution to Backup Trello boards with easy restore, why not just use snapshots by copying the board?

There's no limit to the number of boards you can have, and you could rotate them out so you keep, say, hourly backups for the last 24 hours, then daily backups for the past 30 days or whatever frequency you needed.

Here's an example of using Trellinator to create hourly backups, with each backup board being linked to a card on a backup board for easy reference:

https://gist.github.com/iaindooley/57127d008c8829168f17cc070da85bde

You'd probably want to add some other functionality to group/organise the backups, clear old backups after they'd been around for a certain period, etc. etc. etc

You can see how to install Trellinator here:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-articles/Introducing-Trellinator-Automate-Trello-with-Google-Apps-Script/ba-p/925271

Jennifer Leigh

We use search extensively, so this would multiply the number of results we would find. I saw this suggested solution as well.

I'm leaning towards setting up a backup server and running a script to take snapshots regularly through the API, with another script to find and restore in a disaster scenario. We already run occasional scripts through the API for process tasks, so this would be incremental development for us.

Mike Potter

Rewind now has support for Trello. You can sign up and start backing up and restoring Trello boards, cards and more at https://rewind.com/products/backups/productivity/trello/

Rewind has been trusted by over 80,000 businesses to protect their data, and is already protecting thousands of Trello boards.

Dasha Shakov

Just a heads up to those who find this thread – the Backups for Trello Power-Up is now available in the Power-Up Marketplace.

Trello users can use it to run daily, automated backups of your Trello boards, lists, cards, and more. You can also run a backup any time if your team is making a lot of changes to a board or testing a new Power-Up.

If you have any questions, you can contact me directly at dasha@rewind.com.

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