Restore deleted data

When a published change deletes an entity, a field or a link, Live keeps its data for 30 days. Until then you can bring it back, data and all.

Restore something

1. Open Deployment and choose Recently deleted. It lists what was deleted, when, and until when it can be restored.
2. Choose Restore next to it. It comes back in Preview first.
3. Choose Publish to finish beside it, or Publish in the top bar, to bring it back to Live with its data. The publish panel opens on the data model’s changes.

You can also ask the assistant to restore it.

Builders and Administrators restore deleted data.

What comes back

• A restored entity comes back with its records and its links. A link to an entity that was deleted for good does not come back.
• A restored field comes back with its values. If it was required without a default, it comes back optional: records added since it was deleted have no value for it.
• Data roles need to be given access to a restored entity again: see Roles and access.
• If something has taken its name since, or what it belonged to is deleted too, the page says what to do first.

After 30 days

After 30 days the data is deleted for good and cannot be restored. Recently deleted shows the date for each item.

Records are different

This is about the data model. A single record you delete is deleted at once and cannot be restored.