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Bulk Restore for Classes

As a user in the Administrators group, if you want to add a large number of classes to a restore queue for performing a bulk restore, refer to the steps below:

  1. Click Restore on the left navigation.

  2. On the Restore page, select the Calendar mode tab.

    *Note: On the Restore page, select the Google Classroom tab if your organization also has other modules.

  3. By default, only the successful backup jobs are displayed on the calendar. If you also want to check backup jobs with exceptions, select the Include jobs with partial backup data option.

  4. Each recovery point on the calendar represents the start time of a backup job. By default, the calendar displays the current month’s page. You can click components on the calendar to find the month page which lists your desired recovery points.

    The components on the calendar for users to select the desired month page.

  5. Click a recovery point, and you are directed to the table listing classes in the backup scope.

    *Note: By default, the scope contains historical backup data. If you want to recover contents that were just backed up by the selected backup job, select the Include data from this backup only option.

  6. Select the classes that you want to add to a restore queue, and then click Add to restore queue. You can use the search box on the upper-right corner to search for classes. If you want to import classes via uploading a CSV file, click the Restore queue icon and see Bulk Import Classes for more details.

    The classes in the restore queue will be labeled as Added to queue, and the number shown on the Restore queue icon indicates the total classes in the queue.

    Adding classes to the restore queue.

    Note the following:

    • The restore queue has a maximum limit of 100 classes.

    • If you want to upload a CSV file to bulk import classes, the file size cannot exceed 10 MB.

  7. Click the Restore queue icon. The Restore queue panel appears.

  8. In the Restore queue panel, manage classes in the queue.

    **Remove** – If you want to remove classes from the restore queue, you can click the **Remove** button to remove a single class, or you can select multiple classes and click **Remove** at top of the panel.
    • Bulk import – You can also use this function to add multiple classes by uploading a CSV file. For details, refer to Bulk Import Classes.

  9. In the Restore queue panel, select classes and click Restore. The Restore panel appears. Refer to the following instructions to configure restore settings.

    1. The restore method is Restore the data to its original location.

      *Note: Restoring each class will restore the announcements, classwork, people, and related drive files.

    2. The content-level conflict resolution is Skip. After the restoration, existing data in the destination will remain unchanged.

    3. If you want to restore backup data stored on the Azure archive storage tier, select the Automatically rehydrate if backup data is in Azure archive storage tier checkbox.

      *Note: This setting is only for the Microsoft Azure Blob custom storage location in a BYOS (Bring your own storage) subscription. For AvePoint default storage, the restore job will automatically rehydrate data.

    4. If necessary, enter your comments in the Description field for this restore job.

    5. Click Next to have an overview of the restore settings.

    6. Click Restore to start the restore job. If you want to go back to edit restore settings, click Back.

Bulk Import Classes

The Bulk import function is only available to users in the Administrators group. After clicking Bulk import in the Restore queue panel, the Bulk import panel appears. In the Bulk import panel, you can do the following:

  1. Click Download CSV template.

  2. Configure the downloaded CSV template to add the classes to be included in the restore queue. Note the following:

    • The restore queue has a maximum limit of 100 objects.

    • The CSV file size cannot exceed 10 MB.

    • Ensure the added objects’ backup data are covered by the selected recovery point.

  3. Click Upload and select the configured CSV file.

  4. Click Import.

  5. The system will check objects imported via uploading a CSV file. In the Restore queue panel, an error message will be displayed under each invalid object. You can click Remove all invalid objects to clear them.