# Kibana backs up only first 100 of each object type

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-backs-up-only-first-100-of-each-object-type/32516>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 19, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-backs-up-only-first-100-of-each-object-type/32516 "2015-10-19T17:52:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![GordonM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@GordonM](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GordonM)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-backs-up-only-first-100-of-each-object-type/32516/1 "2015-10-19T17:52:55Z")

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When using Kibana's built-in way to export searches/dashboards/visualizations, I found that the output json, once imported, only appears to backup the first 100 objects of a type (I had over 300 visualizations, but only 100 were restored). Is there a way to make kibana backup all objects of all object types or do we have to resort to external backup methods like backing up the .kibana index?

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 5:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-backs-up-only-first-100-of-each-object-type/32516/2 "2015-10-21T05:22:52Z")

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Which version are you using? This was recently fixed in master and will be in 4.2:

> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/4902>

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-backs-up-only-first-100-of-each-object-type/32516/3 "2017-07-06T14:10:56Z")

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