Backup and Restore NiFi Registry Templates

Example Backed Up NiFi Flow Excerpt

{

"bucket" : {

"createdTimestamp" : 1566430253392,

"identifier" : "aaa50be8-b994-46b5-a0bb-be245c34b928",

"link" : {

"href" : "buckets/aaa50be8-b994-46b5-a0bb-be245c34b928",

"params" : {

"rel" : "self"

}

},

"name" : "IoT",

"permissions" : {

"canDelete" : true,

"canRead" : true,

"canWrite" : true

}

},

"flow" : {

"bucketIdentifier" : "aaa50be8-b994-46b5-a0bb-be245c34b928",

"bucketName" : "IoT",

"createdTimestamp" : 1566430269976,

"description" : "Created by MiNiFi C2 Flow Designer",

"identifier" : "56902ff0-62ac-4189-9684-765247c885b5",

"link" : {

"href" : "buckets/aaa50be8-b994-46b5-a0bb-be245c34b928/flows/56902ff0-62ac-4189-9684-765247c885b5",

"params" : {

"rel" : "self"

}

},

"modifiedTimestamp" : 1567693783102,

"name" : "raspianjava",

"type" : "Flow",

"versionCount" : 10

Restoring Backed Up NiFi Flows

http://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-registry-docs/rest-api/index.html

To restore an Apache NiFi registry flow file.

Create a flow

POST

/buckets/{bucketId}/flows

Creates a flow

Using bucket id, upload a flow via POST and get a new flow id

Create a version of a flow

POST with that bucket id and flow id

/buckets/{bucketId}/flows/{flowId}/versions

Creates the next version of a flow

Scripted NiFi Registry Backups for DevOps Processing

You can also backup and restore NiFi Registry using the NiFi Python API or REST API directly.