https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/unity-catalog-backup/m-p/128923#M3900 <P>Hi&nbsp;<a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/124839">@noorbasha534</a>,<BR />Currently, there’s no native backup/restore. The pragmatic approach is.<BR />Treat Unity Catalog metadata as code (Terraform / SQL DDL checked into Git), regularly export UC object definitions with REST API and lock down schema ownership so end-users can’t drop them.</P> Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:37:54 GMT WiliamRosa 2025-08-19T23:37:54Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/unity-catalog-backup/m-p/125424#M3658 <P>Dear all</P><P>Has anyone explored on backing up unity catalog?...</P><P>because of gaps in the security model of Databricks, we had to make certain user groups as the schema owners and the schema owners can drop the schema <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P><P>I always wonder how to recover the schema ((that has views only)) if some user drops it by mistake....</P><P>so, wanted to check if someone attempted to backup the whole catalog...((we have external tables and views, functions, volumes etc etc))</P> Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:53:55 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/unity-catalog-backup/m-p/125424#M3658 noorbasha534 2025-07-16T11:53:55Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/unity-catalog-backup/m-p/128923#M3900 <P>Hi&nbsp;<a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/124839">@noorbasha534</a>,<BR />Currently, there’s no native backup/restore. The pragmatic approach is.<BR />Treat Unity Catalog metadata as code (Terraform / SQL DDL checked into Git), regularly export UC object definitions with REST API and lock down schema ownership so end-users can’t drop them.</P> Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:37:54 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/unity-catalog-backup/m-p/128923#M3900 WiliamRosa 2025-08-19T23:37:54Z