Overview

A studio pro modeler extension to download and restore Mendix cloud postgres database backups to your local environment in only four clicks.

Documentation

Typical usage scenario

• Support Engineers solving issues from a production environment 
• Developers are testing an application or reproduce steps locally
• Test local development with data from the cloud
• Using applications with complex configuration entities for local development of new team members

Features and limitations

• Only postgresql is supported
• based on the backup api
• Backup files are stored in the provided download folder (see settings), but not cleaned automatically.
• Passwords are stored in Windows Credential management
• Dark and light mode

Dependencies

• A local postgres server version 12 or later
• Windows 10 or 11

Installation

Install from the marketplace

Configuration

Open the settings

• Create or use an existing Cloud API User
• Fill in the API User and API Key
• Provide your local postgres user and password
• The postgres port, typically 5432
• The path your local postgres installation folder, like C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\12 or C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\13. Don't add the Bin folder.
• The path to  your download folder, like C:\Users\John\Downloads

Known bugs

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Github

https://github.com/ChrisdeG/MendixCloudBackupRestoreExtension