Realistic Data Backup method for Parse.com

Question

We are building an iOS app with Parse.com, but still can\'t figure out the right way to backup data efficiently.

As a premise, we have and will have a LOT of data store

Answer 1

I can confirm that today, Parse did lost my data. Or at least it appeared to be so.

After several errors where detected on multiple apps (agreed by Parse Status twitter account), we could not retrieve data for an app, without any error.

It was because an entire column of one of our class (type pointer) disappeared and data was not present anymore in the dashboard.

We are using this pointer column to filter / retrieve data, so the returned queries and collections were empty.

So we decided to recreate the column manually. By chance, recreating the column, with the same name and type, solved the issue and the data was still there... I can't explain it but I really thought, and the app reacted as if, data were lost.

So an automated backup and restore option is mandatory, it is not an option.