Create a New Backup Project

On2Air Backups is an automated backup app for your Airtable bases. Create scheduled backups of your critical business data stored in Airtable and export your information to Dropbox, Box, or Google Drive.

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In this tutorial

1. Create a Backup Project
2. Choose your Storage Connection and Folder
3. Choose a Schedule
4. Choose your Airtable Base(s)
5. Click Start Backup
Customize Your Backup (Include/Exclude Fields, View, and Attachments)
Backups History Log
Backup Folder Structure and File Name Convention
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1. Create a Backup Project

Go to your Account at https://app.on2air.com/app/backups/all
Be sure you’ve connected Airtable and your Storage Drive
Click New Backup
A Backups Project allows you to add 1 or multiple bases to a Project

2. Choose your Storage Connection and Folder

Next to Storage Connection, choose Select Storage Connection

Then choose your Connection from the list

Now, you can Choose a folder from your storage drive or Create a New Folder where your backups will be sent

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By default, we add the backup to the root of your storage drive. You can change to a specific folder. Please note that once you choose a folder, you won’t be able to change it**. You’ll have to create a new Backup Project if you need a new folder.**

Then click Save Backups Details

Click Configure Settings

3. Choose a Schedule

Choose a Backup Schedule
The options listed depend on your plan - Monthly, Weekly, Daily, Continuous

4. Choose your Airtable Base(s)

Go to the Bases tab and click Add Base to Backup

Choose your Airtable connection, then choose the Airtable bases or multiple bases you want in the Backup
Click Add New Backup Bases

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If you see don’t see all of your Airtable bases, this means you didn’t give On2Air full read/write permissions when creating the Airtable connection. - To update this, go to the Accounts and Integrations page in your On2Air account - Choose your Airtable connection and click Reconnect to Airtable - This will start the Airtable to On2Air connection process again - To allow us to access all Airtable bases and workspaces, choose “All current and future bases in all current and future workspaces”. You can also select specific bases if you prefer.

5. Click Start Backup

Click Start Backup to start your Backup

The Status will change to Active while it creates a backup in your storage drive

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Backups will begin within approximately 1 minute. Please note the initial backup takes time to complete, depending on the number of records/fields in your Airtable base and the number of attachments. Subsequent backups will not take as long.