How to save board backup

Who can do it: Board owners, Board co-owners, Company Admins with Content Admin permissions on Enterprise Plan
Which plans: Starter, Business, Enterprise, Education
Which platforms: Browser, Desktop

Create archived copies of your boards by saving board backups. Backups allow you to ensure the safety of your content and share copies of your boards with other Miro users.

Save a board backup

To create a backup:

1. Open the board and click on the vertical three dots () icon.
2. Select the Board submenu. 
3. Then select the Export submenu.
4. Choose the Download board backup option and follow the on-screen instructions.

Downloading board backup

You can also save a backup from your dashboard. Open the board's menu by clicking the three dots (...) icon and select Download board backup from the options.

The *.rtb file will be saved to your device.

⚠️ Please note that only board owners and co-owners can download backups of boards located in paid teams. If this option is greyed out in the Export menu, please check if this functionality is available on your plan and if you are the owner of the board or board co-owner.

Restore a board from a backup

The option to upload a board backup is available for any user in paid teams. You can send an archived copy of your board to another Miro user so that they can recreate the board copy in their paid team.

To restore a board from a backup:

1. From the dashboard, click Create New. 
2. Select Import.
3. Then select Import backup.
   A dialogue box will appear.
4. Choose your *.rtb board backup file.
5. After you confirm your choice, a new board with the same content will be created in the team. The board title will include Restored.

After restoring the board, you also have the capability to move the board to a different space within your team.

Restoring a board from backup

Troubleshooting

Please note both board backup downloads and uploads are limited. For downloads, there is a limit of 1GB. If your board is larger than that, you'll need to either split the board into smaller boards or rely on the board versions instead of downloaded backups of the board.

As for uploads, the Miro interface can upload board backups of a maximum of 1GB. To upload larger backup files, please contact the Miro Support team:

1. Log in to Miro and submit your request using the Support form.
2. Attach your backup file to your request or upload it to any cloud storage and send us the link to it (please make sure to allow anyone with the link to download the file).
3. If your backup file is less than 1GB and you still have issues uploading it, please check the troubleshooting steps on this page.

If you get the error: Can't find existing resource duplicate for optimized resource 0 when trying to upload a backup, it means that the board backup contains a resource that needs to be deleted. You can send the .rtb file to Miro Support so that we can delete the resource data to ensure the successful upload of the backup.

✏️ If you have issues saving a backup, try the troubleshooting steps from this article.

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