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Third party app to backup/rollback Zendesk critical data

  • July 10, 2019
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My company Rewind.io is looking to create an automated backup/rollback app for Zendesk so that users can easily recover lost critical data and rollback/undo changes as needed. I understood that Zendesk gets a number of requests to change or rollback customer data but doesn't offer that service so customers are left to do manual backups themselves (https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022367313), often with the help of a developer to access the export/import APIs.

There are also a handful of threads on this forum with users asking for an automated backup solution that would allow access to data and rollback to previous versions of tickets, KB articles, users and groups, etc. in case of user error or just as a general best practice in case of disaster (see for example https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000317047-Back-up-and-restore-site).

We're looking to confirm that Zendesk admins and users would indeed benefit from an automated backup/rollback service, and what use cases and what critical data specifically they have in mind, to help us prioritize our roadmap. Any input or feedback, positive or otherwise, would be greatly helpful to us so that in turn we can best serve the Zendesk community.  Many thanks! 

Didier

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  • July 23, 2019

Hi Didier,

Thanks for replying to my previous thread and asking for some use case information.

In my case I needed to cleanse a lot of old end user data from our system, approximately 3000 records.

As Zendesk provides no options for bulk deletion of users it meant I needed to do it manually or with the API.

I am not a developer so proceeded with caution to create a simple batch script to delete the users. Whilst I discovered I could backup the user data in XML, CSV etc. It would be really nice to be able to get a complete backup of the system prior to performing this sort of action so a screw up could be recovered.

Also some sort of monnthly backup would be a nice feature.


  • August 12, 2019

This seems like it could potentially be useful in conjunction with sandbox.