When you restore data from a backup, you can select an object hierarchy depth to include child objects of that depth in the restore. To review all the child objects included in the restore before confirming the restore, do a preview restore.
Required Editions
| Available in: Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Professional, Enterprise, Performance, and Unlimited Editions with the Backup & Recover Data and Backup & Recover Files add-on licenses |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To run restore: | Run Restore |
| To view restore results: | View Restore |
- From a compare report, select the object you want to restore.
- Select the records to restore.
- Click Save.
- Click Preview Restore.
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Click the Objects Hierarchy tab and select the object level
depth.
Select
No Hierarchy to not include child objects.
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Confirm that:
- You have the Modify All Data permission.
- Email Deliverability is disabled.
- Validation rules, triggers, and workflows are disabled.
- Click Preview Restore. A new restore activity is created as the system automatically identifies the child objects.
- When the preview restore is complete, open the restore activity from the activities list.
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From the list on the left, view the objects included in the restore.
- If any objects failed to load, click Reload Objects to try again. Objects that don’t load aren't restored.
- Click Restore.
The restore begins. When completed, the restore results are available in the activity.