Business Central Admin Center API - Environment Database Export
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Allows for the export of an environment's Azure database. Databases are exported to an Azure Storage account provided by you. There is a limit to the number of exports that can be done within a month as shown by the 'metrics' endpoint below.
Required In-Product Permissions for Exporting an Environment Database
To use the exports
endpoint, you must have the D365 BACKUP/RESTORE permission set assigned to your Business Central user account or authorized Microsoft Entra app.
Get Export Metrics
Gets information about the number of exports allowed per month and the amount remaining.
GET /admin/v2.21/exports/applications/{applicationFamily}/environments/{environmentName}/metrics
Route Parameters
applicationFamily
- Family of the environment's application (for example, "BusinessCentral")
environmentName
- Name of the targeted environment
Response
Returns the metrics around the current month's database exports.
{
"exportsPerMonth": int, // The total number of allowed exports of the targeted environment every month.
"exportsRemainingThisMonth": int, // The number of exports remaining for the targeted environment that can be performed this month.
}
Expected Error Codes
environmentNotFound
- the targeted environment couldn't be found
- target: {applicationFamily}/{environmentName}
Start Environment Database Export
Starts the export of an environment's database to a provided Azure storage account
Content-Type: application/json
POST /admin/v2.21/exports/applications/{applicationFamily}/environments/{environmentName}
Route Parameters
applicationFamily
- Family of the environment's application (for example, "BusinessCentral")
environmentName
- Name of the targeted environment
Body
{
"storageAccountSasUri": string, // An Azure SAS uri pointing at the Azure storage account where the database will be exported to. The uri must have (Read | Write | Create | Delete) permissions
"container": string, // The name of the container that will be created by the process to store the exported database.
"blob": string, // The name of the blob within the container that the database will be exported to. Databases are exported in the .bacpac format so a filename ending with the '.bacpac' suffix is typical.
}
Expected Error Codes
environmentNotFound
- the targeted environment couldn't be found
- target: {applicationFamily}/{environmentName}
requestBodyRequired
- the request body must be provided
exportFailed
- the export failed because the target environment's version was too old, it wasn't a production environment, the requesting tenant is a trial, the calling user doesn't have permissions to export, or the quota of allowed exports has been used up
Get Export History
Gets information about the exports that have been done within a provided time frame, for which environment, and by which user.
POST /admin/v2.21/exports/history?start={startTime}&end={endTime}
Query parameters
startTime
- datetime // The start of the export history entry time window to query
endTime
- datetime // The end of the export history entry time window to query
Response
Returns a detailed list of the database exports that occurred within the provided timeframe of the start
and end
query parameters
{
"applicationType": string, // Family of the environment (for example, "BusinessCentral")
"applicationVersion": string, // The version of the environment's application at the time of the export.
"blob": string, // The name of the blob that the environment's database was exported to.
"container": string, // The name of the Azure storage account container that the environment's database was exported within.
"country": string, // The country code of the environment.
"environmentName": string, // The name of the environment that was exported.
"storageAccount": string, // The name of the Azure storage account that the environent's database was exported to.
"time": dateTime, // The time that the environment's database was exported.
"user": string // The user who initiated the export process.
}
Note
All datetime values are in UTC
Case-Invariant blocked environment names
All environment types
- addremotehost
- admin
- api
- clickonce
- connectivity
- deployment
- error
- getapp
- health
- home
- invoicing
- navwinclient
- notsupported
- officeaddin
- phone
- pwa
- remotesignin
- reset
- shellservice
- signout
- tablet
Production Environment Types
- production
Sandbox Environment Types
- sandbox
Related information
The Business Central Administration Center API Manage Apps Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Server Administration Tool