The Power BI Backup Tab¶
The Power BI Backup tab in the MetaMiner Client (MMC) lists your backup jobs at the top and the archives they produced at the bottom, with the actions for each.
The tab appears when at least one Power BI environment is enabled. It lists jobs and archives for every enabled Power BI environment you can see. Using it requires the MetaMiner Tenant Admin permission (see Prerequisites and Access).
Image of the MMC Power BI Backup tab with two jobs in the Backup jobs grid and several archives in the Archives grid, one job selected
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Backup jobs grid¶
| Column | Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | The job name. |
| Owner | The MetaMiner user who created the job. |
| Workspaces | The workspaces in the job's selection. |
| Contents | What the job captures: Item definitions, plus any of Workspace access, Item access, Folders, Workspace settings, .pbix. |
| Schedule | Manual, or a description of the schedule. Hover to see the full text, including start and end. |
| Validity | Valid, or Invalid with the reason (for example, no access to a workspace). An invalid job does not run. |
| Last run | Start time of the most recent run. |
| Last result | OK, OK, with warnings - ..., Skipped - ..., or the reason the last run failed. |
Double-click a job to open it in the Edit backup job wizard.
Job actions¶
The toolbar above the grid and the right-click menu on a row offer the same actions.
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| New | Opens the New backup job wizard. See Create a Backup Job. |
| Edit | Opens the selected job in the wizard. The environment cannot be changed. |
| Run now | Runs the selected job immediately. See Run and Monitor Jobs. |
| Delete job | Deletes the job after confirmation. Its run history is kept and its archives are not deleted. |
| Run history... | Lists every run of the selected job, including failed and running ones. |
| Refresh | Reloads both grids. Scheduled runs that finished on the server appear after a refresh. |
Archives grid¶
| Column | Shows |
|---|---|
| Archive | The archive name: the job name at backup time plus the run id. |
| Job | The job's current name, (deleted) if the job was deleted, or (ad-hoc) if the archive has no job. |
| Owner | The job owner at backup time. |
| Environment | The Power BI environment it was taken from. |
| Created | When the run created it. Newest first. |
| Objects | Number of objects in the archive. |
| Contents | What was captured (same wording as the jobs grid). |
| Method | Bulk export, Per-object or Mixed: how the workspaces' content was captured. |
| Size | Archive size in KB. |
Show all¶
With Show all ticked (the default), the grid lists every archive. Clear it to list only the archives of the job selected in the upper grid.
Archive actions¶
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| Restore | Opens the restore wizard for the selected archive. See Restore Content. |
| View contents | Opens the read-only Archive contents dialog. Double-clicking an archive does the same. See Browse an Archive. |
| Delete | Deletes the archive file from the server after confirmation. This cannot be undone. The run stays in run history. |
Tip
Double-click never starts a restore. It opens the read-only contents view, so you can check an archive before restoring from it.