What is the best way to backup Grist data?

[school]

I’ve suddenly realized I don’t have a backup copy of my Grist data just in case. What is the best way to do so?

[jperon]

If you want to occasionally take a copy, you have a download link on the share button (top right). Grist files are sqlite files, so it’s possible to query them thanks to existing tools.
On docs.getgrist.com, you have automatic snaphots; on my self-hosting instance, I’ve put the “persist” directory on a btrfs filesystem with periodic snapshots thanks to snapper.

[enthus1ast]

I’ve written a small tool for backup your data locally:

Small stand alone application for periodially grist backups (sqlite, xlsx, csv)

I’ve build a small stand alone application that downloads/exports your Grist documents for periodically backups. It works with hosted and self hosted grist. The reason i build it is, that we need to do “tamperproof periodically snapshots” of our documents, to be archived for 10+/30+ years (gene modified organisms database), so this tool can download the documents in all three formats, to hopefully be still readable in these 30+ years.