I’m using Firestore to maintain state in my “thing”.

In an attempt to ensure that I’m able to restore the database, I run (Cloud Scheduler) scheduled backups (see Automating Scheduled Firestore Exports and I’ve been testing imports to ensure that the process works.

It does.

I thought I’d document an important but subtle consideration with Firestore exports (which I’d not initially understood).

Google facilitates that backup process with the sibling commands: