Hi - it would be very useful to be able to import (at least the structure of) a self-hosted database into a cloud account. I have just built a database and wanted to test it on the cloud version but the import is not available (well, the option is there but you cannot get around the certification warning as there is no access to the admin tools screen). This issue came up before and the answer was “recreate the structure manually” - sure, it can be done manually on a small config but it is not very practical on a multi-table database with lots of formulas and linkages. Please consider this as a future improvement.
Hello @AdamJ, we have discussed this request here: Any way to backup a database to local automatically with API? - #7 by petrs
Thanks @olgatrykush - the discussion you mentioned is about a slightly different topic. What I posted about is specifically related to moving/migrating a self-hosted db to the cloud. This can only be done manually and, as @petrs explained, is unlikely to be unlocked. I can imagine there are potential security issues with full export/import so my suggestion was to perhaps only enable a database structure export/import (i.e. tables, fields with field definitions and formulas). This would be very useful e.g. for testing/experimenting (as prompted by my case), but also, in general, e.g. for creating templates that are deployed in baserow.io.
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