How to restore work items
Our backups run by default on an automated basis. That means every day we take a backup of all your work items, their attachments, comments and links (relationships) and keep them in an encrypted state. You may also backup to your own storage. When you make a change to one of your work items, Azure Devops automatically creates a new revision of the work items. We will also create a new backup of the new work item and keep your old version too.
Due to API restrictions, if a work item is deleted, it cannot be restored to the former work item Id.
Navigate to your "work items" menu item and choose the items you wish to restore
Choose which project to restore the work items to
Check the logs for more information on the progress.
The restore of the work items relies on the target project having the same process template available. Restoring to a project of different process template will result in fields not matching across projects.
Navigate to your "Work Item Snapshots" area. Choose the particular date of the snapshot.
Choose which project to restore the work items to
Check the logs for more information on the progress.
The restore of the work items relies on the target project having the same process template available. Restoring to a project of different process template will result in fields not matching across projects.
Due to API restrictions, if a work item is deleted, it cannot be restored to the former work item Id.
To restore a work item individually:
Navigate to your "work items" menu item and choose the items you wish to restore
Choose which project to restore the work items to
Check the logs for more information on the progress.
The restore of the work items relies on the target project having the same process template available. Restoring to a project of different process template will result in fields not matching across projects.
To restore all work items for a particular project at once including all links and parent/child relationships:
Navigate to your "Work Item Snapshots" area. Choose the particular date of the snapshot.
Choose which project to restore the work items to
Check the logs for more information on the progress.
The restore of the work items relies on the target project having the same process template available. Restoring to a project of different process template will result in fields not matching across projects.
Updated on: 14/02/2024
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