Accidentally deleted a Dataiku project – is there any way to recover it?
Hi everyone,
I accidentally deleted one of my Dataiku projects and I’m trying to understand whether there is any way to recover it.
I’ve been researching this for a while and I’m finding conflicting information:
- Some sources say that once a project is deleted, there is no way to recover it.
- Other sources mention that recovery might be possible through version control, by creating a new project and connecting it to a remote repository, then pulling the previous changes.
The issue I’m facing is that I can’t find any option to connect to a remote repository or pull from one. In the Version Control section of my existing projects, I don’t see any remote configured, nor do I see an option to pull from a remote repo.
So I wanted to ask the community:
- Is a deleted Dataiku project permanently lost, or are there any recovery options?
- If version control was not set up with a remote repository before deletion, is recovery still possible?
- Are there any server-side backups, logs, or admin-level options that could help in this situation?
Any clarification or confirmation from Dataiku experts or admins would be really appreciated, even if the answer is simply “it’s not recoverable.”
Thanks in advance for your help!
Answers
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Turribeach Dataiku DSS Core Designer, Neuron, Dataiku DSS Adv Designer, Registered, Neuron 2023, Circle Member Posts: 2,665 NeuronYour only potential ways of recovering it are:
- If you upgraded the environment there might be a pre-upgrade backup performed by Dataiku installer
- If it was deployed to an Automation node, recover from the bundle
- If it was manually exported, recover from a previous export
Aside from that if you have no exports or bundles then it’s gone for ever.
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tgb417 Dataiku DSS Core Designer, Dataiku DSS & SQL, Dataiku DSS ML Practitioner, Dataiku DSS Core Concepts, Neuron 2020, Neuron, Registered, Dataiku Frontrunner Awards 2021 Finalist, Neuron 2021, Neuron 2022, Frontrunner 2022 Finalist, Frontrunner 2022 Winner, Dataiku Frontrunner Awards 2021 Participant, Frontrunner 2022 Participant, Neuron 2023 Posts: 1,642 Neuronthere are two other ways, but you would have to have taken steps prior to the loss.
Restoring from A system level backup, that included the home directory for Dataiku.
The version control based recovery would assume that you had connected your project to an external git repository like GitHub. And that you periodically pushing the content of your local project to the remote repository.Finally I would suggest that you open a support ticket. They are very helpful.
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Turribeach Dataiku DSS Core Designer, Neuron, Dataiku DSS Adv Designer, Registered, Neuron 2023, Circle Member Posts: 2,665 Neuron
If you upgrded the environment with the default command line the upgrade backups are located under DSS_HOME/_pre_migration_backup_YYYYMMDD-HHMISS/config/projects/
Stop DSS, copy the project to DSS_HOME/config/projects/ and run the upgrade script again. Then start DSS again.