Backup & Restore

Create Backup (Firestore + Auth)

This option creates a Firestore and Authentication backup as follows:

1. Downloads all Authentication users locally to a AllAuthUsers.json file
2. Backups your Fxirestore data to a Storage Bucket
3. Downloads all Firestore data from the bucket to a local folder

In the end, you will have a folder and files like this:

- firebackups
  - (projectId)
     - (firestoreBackupFolderId)
        - ...
     - AllAuthUsers.json

This is your Firestore and Authentication data. Keep it safe and store it wherever you want.

Restore Backup (Firestore + Auth)

After you have at least one backup downloaded locally, you can restore it to any project you want. This option does the following:

1. Uploads your Firestore backup to Firebase Storage
2. Import your Firestore backup from Storage to Firestore
3. Uploads and imports all Authentication users from AllAuthUsers.json

‼️ Make sure to select the correct target project. If you do select the wrong project, valuable data might get overwritten. So be careful.

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This tool was quickly built for myself and is not yet a sophisticated solution at all.

If you like it, please feel free to contribute by improving its messy code or adding further functionality.

I am planning to automating backups for other Firebase services and simplifying the processes even more in the future. Until then I hope it's already useful 😃.