How to Export Your Data from Fauna (Before and After Shutdown)

How to fix it

Try these in order — the most common fix is first.

1. 1. If you exported before the shutdown

   Copy steps
   1. Locate the JSON files in your S3 bucket or local backups
   2. Check document counts against your records before importing elsewhere
   Did this fix it? Yes No

2. 2. If you did not export

   Copy steps
   1. Look for old backups, CI artifacts, seed scripts or analytics copies of your data
   2. Ask your team whether any scheduled job copied the data
   3. Data stored only in Fauna's hosted service was deleted with the accounts; we found no recovery route
   Did this fix it? Yes No

Symptoms

You need your documents out of Fauna, or the export option is missing.

Why it happens

• Export deadline passed on May 30, 2025
• No S3 bucket or permissions were set up
• Large collections timed out with plain FQL queries

This guide also covers

• fauna export data
• fauna snapshot export s3
• fauna backup
• fauna data export

Other Fauna errors

• Is Fauna Shutting Down? What Happened and What to Do
• How to Migrate from Fauna to Postgres
• How to Migrate from Fauna to MongoDB
• Fauna Not Working: Connection Refused or Request Failed
• Is Fauna Open Source? Can You Self-Host It?
• Fauna Billing After Shutdown: Charges, Refunds and Cancel
• Converting FQL Queries to SQL After Fauna
• Fauna GraphQL and REST API Not Responding After Shutdown