topic BIMCloud SaaS - "Offsite" back-ups? in Teamwork & BIMcloud

BIMCloud SaaS - "Offsite" back-ups?

Blair_C — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 01:16:05 GMT

Interested to know, is anyone storing back-ups in addition to the SaaS default snapshots?

If so, how is this done?

It's not good practice to only ever have one back-up copy and only on the same server as your active server.

While acknowledging that it appears Google is stashing these back-ups somewhere for us, the below description from the SaaS guide doesn't inspire confidence that we could get timely access to them should something fail with SaaS itself.

..."

Snapshot Files Location

Snapshot files are saved to an external location in the Google storage system. This location is not configurable."

Re: BIMCloud SaaS - "Offsite" back-ups?

Blair_C — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 06:12:24 GMT

Just in case anyone was following this.... the answer is it can't be done.

Or at least it can, if you want to manually download your snapshots one by one.

Let's hope an automated workflow for downloading back-ups appears on the Roadmap.

Re: BIMCloud SaaS - "Offsite" back-ups?

kimberley873 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 01:10:27 GMT

Hi Blair,
Not quite a year on from your post, are you aware of anything that has changed?

Re: BIMCloud SaaS - "Offsite" back-ups?

Lingwisyer — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 01:21:43 GMT

Can a Delta Cache still be accessed when SaaS is down?

Re: BIMCloud SaaS - "Offsite" back-ups?

Blair_C — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:16:13 GMT

Well....not one that I've been made aware of, other than an "add it to the wishlist" response on another post:

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Teamwork-BIMcloud/Backup-options-for-BIMCloud-SaaS/td-p/659792

Re: BIMCloud SaaS - "Offsite" back-ups?

BerndSchwarzenbacher — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:25:57 GMT

Hi @Blair_C,

This might be possible with the BIMCloud API. Just a rough idea though. Haven't tested it myself yet.

Hope that helps,
Bernd

Re: BIMCloud SaaS - "Offsite" back-ups?

Noemi Balogh — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:13:08 GMT

BIMcloud API is more about uploading - downloading files, which is not equal with the PLN and BIMProject files that Blair is talking about. As of now, there's still no automated option to get offsite backups of projects hosted on SaaS.

Re: BIMCloud SaaS - "Offsite" back-ups?

BIMadmin80 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:25:54 GMT

For any company larger than a handful of people having the ability to take automated offsite backups is absolutely business critical. The lack of this just shows that Graphisoft doesn't really know how to develop enterprise grade cloud solutions, or they just don't care.

Look at the BIMcloud software itself, it isn't really a serious business application. No TLS support built-in, no password policies, no SAML integration, poor tools for managing files and backups, no high-availability features...

I wish someone would develop a superior open source alternative so we could stop using BIMcloud altogether. But then again abandoning Archicad as a whole is becoming more of a goal for many after the price increases.

Re: BIMCloud SaaS - "Offsite" back-ups?

scottjm — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:23:02 GMT

I’m thinking a python script using Selenium or BeautifulSoup, to automate the accessing of the webui, might be the only way currently.
Not pretty but might get the job done.

Re: BIMCloud SaaS - "Offsite" back-ups?

Davor P — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:54:19 GMT

It is possible to automate it and I am about to launch a BIMcloud backup service. Anyone interested in early access, hit me up.

Re: BIMCloud SaaS - "Offsite" back-ups?

Davor P — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:37:30 GMT

Hi all, I have created a BIMcloud backup app - if anyone is interested in testing, let me know.

Re: BIMCloud SaaS - "Offsite" back-ups?

kevindavis — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:31:37 GMT

Hi Davor

We would be - is this Windows only (we are an all Mac environment)?

Thanks for your work on this.

Re: BIMCloud SaaS - "Offsite" back-ups?

Davor P — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:05:34 GMT

Hi Kevin,

Windows only for now. Would need to see how complex it would be to create a Mac version. It would also depend on the uptake - if low interest in Windows version, then might not be viable.

Re: BIMCloud SaaS - "Offsite" back-ups?

kevindavis — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 07:58:46 GMT

Hi Davor

Thanks for the reply

Will wait and see how you get on - is unbelievable really that this isn't something GS have built in.

Re: BIMCloud SaaS - "Offsite" back-ups?

Erik Bjornhage — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:17:25 GMT

We're considering a switch to BIMCloud SaaS - so this would be a very usable tool for us.