Backup up branch

Question

Hi, How to backup your branch in adf pipeline.. Like download and store it somewhere

Answer 1

@Vineet S - Thanks for the question and using MS Q&A platform.

You can create a new branch in Azure Data Factory/ Synapse Analytics to create a backup of the development branch.

You can later use the same brach to import existing Data Factory resources to repository

According to the official document: Source control in Azure Data Factory

OR

You can directly download the supported JSON files from ADF/Synapse studio and upload the same wherever you want (example: In an ADLS gen2 account or local system).

Hope this helps. Do let us know if you have any further queries.

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Answer 2

Hello @Vineet S

To backup your branch in ADF pipeline, you can use the "Copy Data" activity to copy the data from your branch to a storage account. Here are the steps to do that:

1. Create a new pipeline in your ADF instance.
2. Add a "Copy Data" activity to the pipeline.
3. In the "Source" tab of the activity, select your branch as the source dataset.
4. In the "Sink" tab of the activity, select your storage account as the sink dataset.
5. Configure the settings for the copy operation, such as the file format and compression options.
6. Save and publish the pipeline. Once you run the pipeline, the data from your branch will be copied to the specified storage account. You can then download and store the data from the storage account as needed.

This is another approach, to the one already provided above.