Import, Export & Backup

Lastboard has two separate features that are easy to confuse. This page explains when to use each. Both live under Settings → Data.

	Full backup	Import / Export dashboards
Scope	Everything: users, all dashboards, settings	Just dashboards and their items
Format	Backup file (complete snapshot)	Open, documented YAML
Restoring	Overwrites your current data	Adds new dashboards; deletes nothing
Use it for	Disaster recovery, moving to another instance	Sharing a layout, migrating from another app, keeping a portable copy

Rule of thumb: Full backup is for recovering or relocating your whole instance. Import/Export is for moving dashboards around without touching anything else.

Both live in the same Settings → Data panel:

Data settings

Full Backup

Saves or restores everything — every user, every dashboard, all settings, and your stored icons — as a single snapshot.

• Backup — download a complete copy of your instance.
• Restore — upload a backup to bring an instance back to that exact state.

Because the icons travel inside the file, restoring on a machine with no internet still gives you the board exactly as you left it. Backups taken before icons were stored locally restore fine too: their bookmarks come back with the URLs they were saved with, and the next restart stores those pictures for you.

Warning: Restoring overwrites all current data and cannot be undone. Use it for recovery, or to move a full setup to another Lastboard instance — not to merge dashboards.

Export (YAML)

Downloads your configuration as open, documented YAML — no lock-in, easy to read, edit, and version-control. The file lists each dashboard and its items:

version: 1
dashboards:
  - name: Home
    items:
      - type: bookmark
        title: Jellyfin
        url: http://10.0.0.7:8096
        icon: jellyfin
        group: Media

Each item has a type, title, and url, plus optional icon, group (the section it belongs to), description and status_check.

Import Dashboards

Bring dashboards in from another tool or a native export. Import always creates new dashboards — it never deletes or overwrites what you already have.

1. Choose the format of your file.
2. Pick the file.
3. Confirm — Lastboard tells you how many items it will import before creating anything.

Supported formats

Format	Source file
Native (Lastboard YAML)	A file produced by Export (YAML) above
Homepage — services.yaml	Homepage’s services configuration
Homepage — bookmarks.yaml	Homepage’s bookmarks configuration
Dashy — conf.yml	A Dashy configuration file

Items that don’t belong to a named group are placed under an Ungrouped section. After importing, you’re switched to the first new dashboard so you can review and rearrange it.