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    Restore Project Online Data

    With AvePoint Cloud Backup, you can browse or search for Project Online backup jobs or data to restore items to their original location, to another location, or to a storage location. Currently, you can only select the Project Online containers as the destination to restore the Project Online backup data. For details on the supported restore options of Project Online, refer to Restore Options for Different Object Types and Project Online Data Types.

    *Note: If you want to restore the backup data to a storage location, you must have your own storage location configured. The default storage provided by AvePoint cannot be the destination of the restore.

    Complete the steps below to restore Project Online data:

    1. Navigate to the Restore > AvePoint Cloud Backup page, and then click the Project Online tile.

    2. Select the items that you want to restore. You can choose one of the following methods to find the data to restore:

      • Search mode – Define a Project Online site collection as the search scope and then use the properties to search for the items within the scope. Note that this method does not support searching and restoring the list items.

        Refer to the steps below:

        1. In the URL field, you can enter the URL or site title to search for the Project Online site that you would like to restore. The default search condition is to search the backup data of that site collection within the last backup cycle.

        2. In the Backup Time Range field, the time range of the last backup cycle is displayed by default. Click the Calendar button to customize the backup time range. The start date must be earlier than the end date. You can click Reset if you want to reset the settings. Click OK to save your customization.

        3. Select Site collection, Site, List/Library, Project, App, Folder, or Document from the Level list for the items you want to search. If you want to search for all sites, lists or libraries, projects, folders, or documents in the selected site collection, you can leave the search conditions empty. To search for specific sites, lists/libraries, projects, or folders, enter the title or name or the keywords for search; to search for specific documents, you can configure the following search conditions: Document name, Created date, Created by, Modified by, or Document size.

        4. Click Search to search the items according to the conditions you configured. The search conditions and the search results are displayed. The search results table will display a maximum of 2000 items. You can edit the search conditions and click Search to adjust the search results.

        5. Find and select the item you want to restore from the search results. In the Recovery point column, click the Calendar button to select a backup job that backed up this item at the status that you want to restore, and click Apply. Click the Restore button above the search result table to restore all selected items.

        6. Continue to step 3 to configure the Restore settings.

      • Calendar mode – Find a backup job that backed up the items at the time of the status you want to recover, and then search and select the items from the backup data of that backup job.

        1. In the calendar, all Project Online backup jobs are displayed. You can select whether to display the finished with an exception or failed jobs in the calendar by selecting the Include jobs with only partial backup data option. Note that the data of these jobs may be incomplete. Hover over a backup job to show the backup job details.

        2. Select a backup job. All backup data of Project Online, up to a maximum of 2000 items, is displayed in the table. You can select the Show data from this backup only (historical data in this scope from previous backups not included) option to only show the data backed up in the selected backup job.

        3. You can enter keywords to search the items, or you can click the backup data to browse the items you want to restore.

        4. Click the Restore button above the table to restore all selected items.

          *Note: If you want to select multiple items to restore at the same time, you can only select the items at the same level.

        5. Continue to step 3 to configure the Restore settings.

    3. If necessary, you can enter a description for this restore job in the Description text box.

    4. Select what you would like to restore for the selected items. You can choose to restore all content and security from the backup, or you can choose to only restore the security. The security includes all the user permissions at the selected level and beneath. The restore-security-only restore job cannot add or delete any users in the target site collection.

    5. Choose where to restore the backup data. Note that the Project Online site collections, sites, projects, and apps only support being restored to the original location or restored to another location.

      • Restore the data to its original location – Restore the backup data to where the data are backed up.

      • Restore the data to another location – Restore the backup data to another destination. Configure the following settings:

        • Select a destination object type – Select a container as the restore destination. You can enter keywords to search for the restore destination. The items that can be selected as the restore destination are listed under the Search box.

          If you select sites, lists, libraries, projects, folders, documents, or apps to restore, you can click a node on the destination tree to load the nodes under it and click the Previous button to navigate back to the previous node. Select a node where you want to restore the backup data.

        • Action – Select how the backup data will be restored to the destination. Select Attach to restore the contents as children beneath the selected node, or select Merge to add the contents to the destination node. For example, you want to restore a site to another site. If you select Attach, the restored site will become the subsite of the destination site; if you select Merge, the subsites and contents of the restored site rather than itself will directly become the subsites and contents of the destination site.

      • Restore the data to your storage – Restore the backup data to your own storage location configured. This option is not available if the default storage location is used.

        *Note: The Project Online site collections, sites, projects, and apps do not support being restored to a custom storage location.

    6. Select how to handle the conflicts in the restore job.

      • Container level conflict resolution – Select how to handle the conflicts at the container level.

        • Skip – The settings of the conflicting destination container will be retained in the destination.

        • Merge – The source container settings and the content will be merged to the conflicting destination container.

        • Replace – The settings of the conflicting destination container will be deleted and replaced by the source container settings, as well as the content within the container.

      • Content level conflict resolution – Select how to handle the conflicts at the content level.

        *Note: This is not available if Replace is selected as the container level conflict resolution.

        • Skip – The conflicting destination content will be retained in the destination, and the backup data of the conflicting content will not be restored.

        • Overwrite – The conflicting destination content will be removed from the destination, and the backup data of the conflicting content will be restored.

      • Apps conflict resolution – Select how to handle the apps conflict.

        • Skip – The conflicting destination app and AppData will be retained in the destination, and the backup data of the conflicting content will not be restored.

        • Overwrite – The conflicting destination app and AppData will be removed from the destination, and the backup data of the conflicting content will be restored.

      *Note: If you choose to only restore security, you must select how to handle the security conflicts at the container level and content level. Replace will overwrite the security in the destination; Merge will combine the security in the backup with the security in the destination.

    7. Expand the Advanced settings area to configure more restore settings. If you choose to restore to another location, the mapping settings will be available to allow you to update the permissions and metadata or language.

    8. User mapping – Select a user mapping profile from the drop-down list. For more instructions on creating a new user mapping profile, refer to Configure Mapping Settings.

    9. Language mapping – Select a language mapping profile from the drop-down list. For more instructions on creating a new language mapping profile, refer to Configure Mapping Settings.

    10. Domain mapping – Select a domain mapping profile from the drop-down list. For additional details on creating a new domain mapping profile, refer to Configure Mapping Settings.

    11. In the Would you like to restore PWA settings field, select Yes or No to decide whether to restore the PWA settings.

      • Yes – With this option selected, all supported PWA settings will be restored, for example, the views and permissions. The restore may interrupt all existing projects in the destination site collection.

      • No – With this option selected, the restore job will only restore the resources and the Enterprise Project Type associated with the projects and all the Enterprise Custom Fields and Lookup Tables under the PWA.

      Before the January 2021 release, all PWA settings will be restored when you select Project Online site collection or projects to restore. Moving forward, when you select projects to restore, you can select No for only restoring the related settings for the selected projects. The associated Resources and Enterprise Project Type, and all the Enterprise Custom Fields and Lookup Tables under PWA will be restored.

      If you select a Project Online site collection to restore, the recommended option “Yes” is by default selected. If you do not want to restore all PWA settings, you can also change the setting to No.

    12. Choose how you would like to restore the version history if file versions are backed up by AvePoint Cloud Backup. You can select to Restore the latest version only, or you can select the Restore the current and previous versions option and enter the maximum number of versions you want to restore in the box. AvePoint Cloud Backup service can restore up to 20 versions of one document. For the best performance and simplest experience, AvePoint recommends restoring only the latest version.

    13. Note the following:

      • By default, history versions of items and files are not backed up due to the regular recovery points created by backup jobs, as well as Microsoft 365 API overhead and limitations related to versions. In our experience, most user and legal requests are only for the most recent active version. In addition, we will capture multiple roll-back points during our daily backups to ensure you have a change history for this document outside native versioning. If you need to back up the versions for some reason and are willing to accept the performance impact, please contact AvePoint support to have it enabled. The backup job will include the most recent 10 versions by default.

      • If you want to restore earlier versions of a document, you can run an export job to export all versions of that document from the backup data.

      • This restore setting is not available when selecting documents or restoring security only.

    14. Select how you would like to restore the Managed Metadata Service.

      • If the containers or content you select to restore is under the site collection level, the Restore terms in site store only option and the Restore terms in both global term store and site term store option will only restore the terms and their parent terms associated directly with the data from the site store or both. Note that if the data is not restored due to the conflict resolutions you choose, the restored terms cannot be connected to the data either.

      • If you select at least the site collection level object to perform the restore, the Restore terms in site store only option will restore all the deleted terms in the site store and the Restore terms in both global term store and site term store option will restore all the deleted terms in both the global term store and site term store.

      • If you select to Use existing terms only, no terms will be restored.

      • If you want to perform a term store-only restore, refer to the FAQ: How do I perform term store-only restore

    15. Turn on/off the switch to define whether to restore the sharing permissions. This feature only works for the sharing of items with specific people inside or outside your organization. For external users, the restore job can only restore the permissions for the users who have accessed the sharing link. After the restore, the sharing links will be changed, and OneDrive users can navigate to OneDrive > Shared library to view the content shared with you and shared by you. The links generated by the Copy link function in Microsoft 365 are also regarded as sharing links.

      *Note: The Sharing setting is a tenant-level setting, and the AvePoint Cloud Backup service does not protect tenant settings. The restore job to restore a deleted site cannot restore the Sharing settings, including the external users and their permissions.

    16. Turn on/off the switch to define whether to allow restore jobs to rehydrate the data sets automatically when the backup data is stored in the Azure archive storage tier. This field is only functional for the BYOS subscription type. For AvePoint default storage, the restore job will automatically rehydrate data.

      *Note: AvePoint recommends not storing the index database in the Azure archive storage tier.

    17. Turn on/off the switch to define whether to enable the Custom Scripts setting during the restore. This feature allows you to restore data related to scripts to the destination Microsoft environment.

    18. Click Next to view the restore summary.

    19. Click Restore to restore the selected items. After the job has started, you can navigate to the Job monitor to view the job details. For details, refer to Job Monitor.