# Recovering multiple projects

**Restoring multiple Azure DevOps projects enables organizations to quickly recover projects, repositories, and source code at scale, ensuring consistent and reliable restoration across the development environment.**

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## Recovery process

The below steps demonstrate how to restore multiple **Azure DevOps** projects at once using **Xopero ONE Management Service**.

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**Azure does not allow restoring deleted packages to the same feed.** Once a package is deleted, it must remain deleted. Restoring to a new feed does not have this limitation, so all packages should be restored there.
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Get into the restore view using the following method:

1. Open the **Azure DevOps** tab (**DevOps** > **Azure DevOps**), then click the **Explore** button next to the organization whose backup you want to restore (explore <img src="/files/1dczzvU5vbfupCKAU62R" alt="" data-size="original"> icon in list view).
2. In the **Projects & repositories** tab, select all projects you want to restore, and then click **Restore** in the top menu.

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Click every chosen project to select the backup plan and copy from which you want to restore data, then click **Next**.

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By default, the latest backup is always selected, regardless of the plan.
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Select the destination for the recovery and click **Next**.

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You can choose any device or organization registered in **Xopero ONE** (you can find more information about cross-recovery in **Useful links and items section**).
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In **Data to restore section** at the top, click **Edit** and select data you want to restore.

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By default, all items are selected for restoration. However, **Xopero ONE** allows you to choose which metadata to restore. You can include or exclude each element by toggling the switch next to it.
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In the **Throttling prevention** section, you can add additional **DevOps** organization accounts to avoid throttling.

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To use additional organization accounts, you must first add them in the organization settings (organization view > **Edit**).
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Configure the recovery destination settings, depending on where the backup will be restored.

#### Restore to a Git organization:

1. Select the target organization (where applicable).
2. In **Restore settings**, you can set custom names for all projects and repositories in the project, or add a suffix to their original names.

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If the custom name—or the original project and repository names—already exists within the selected **Git** organization, **the restoration will fail**. To ensure successful recovery, choose unique names or select the **Add suffix to repo/project name** option, so the restored items to retain their original names with an automatically generated suffix.
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3. If you are restoring your project to the **Azure DevOps** or **DevOps Server** organization:
   1. Choose whether to restore repositories from the project's copy:
      1. When the **Restore repositories from this project's copy** switch is turned off during the restore process, along with the project, all of its protected repositories are restored, **regardless of whether the repositories were protected by the same plan or by different plans**. The latest available backups are used.
      2. When the switch is turned on, a different restore mechanism is applied. In this case, **only repositories backed up by the same plan as the project are restored**.

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Due to required changes, the latter mechanism is not available for backups created with **Xopero ONE** versions earlier than 2.0.5 or for agents running versions lower than 2.0.5.
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4. Adjust the bandwidth and other available settings, depending on the recovery destination.
5. Check which agent is set as the default for recovery and change it if necessary.

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#### Restore to a device:

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To restore a repository to a local device, you must have a **Git** client and the **Xopero ONE** agent installed on that device (you can find more information about agents in **Useful links and items** section).
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You can restore **only the repository** (without metadata) when restoring data to local resources.
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1. Select the destination device (a registered device).
2. Make sure the device where you want to restore data has the **Git** client added to the PATH environment variable. The PATH variable is usually configured automatically after **Git** installation (a system restart may be required) — if it isn’t, you will have to configure it manually.

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To configure the PATH variable in **Windows**, open the environment variables, select the PATH variable, and click the **Edit** button. Copy the path to the git.exe file and add it to the PATH variable.
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3. Specify the restoration directory and configure other options (for example, whether to overwrite existing data or reduce bandwidth). If needed, you can create a new restoration folder on the selected drive from the **Management Service** level.

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After defining all parameters, click the **Restore** button to begin the recovery process. When the process is complete, a new project/repository/folder will be created in your organization/on your device. You can monitor the restoration process in the **Tasks** tab.
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## Useful links and items

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[Xopero ONE Agent](/xopero-one-en/deployment-and-configuration/xopero-one-agent.md)
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[Cross-recovery for DevOps organizations](/xopero-one-en/backup-and-recovery/devops/general/cross-recovery-for-devops-organizations.md)
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[LFS recovery for DevOps organizations](/xopero-one-en/backup-and-recovery/devops/general/lfs-recovery-for-devops-organizations.md)
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[Wiki recovery for DevOps organizations](/xopero-one-en/backup-and-recovery/devops/general/wiki-recovery-for-devops-organizations.md)
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[Throttling prevention](/xopero-one-en/compliance-and-risk-management/throttling-prevention.md)
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