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# Restoring SharePoint sites

**Xopero ONE allows you to recover SharePoint data from available backup points and restore it to the original location or another selected destination. The recovery process helps restore entire sites after accidental deletion, unwanted changes, or other data-loss scenarios while preserving their structure, documents, lists, and associated data.**

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## Recovery process

The below steps demonstrate how to restore **SharePoint** sites and their metadata using **Xopero ONE Management Service**.

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Open the **Microsoft 365** tab, then click the **Explore** button next to the organization whose backup you want to restore.

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In the **SharePoint Sites** tab, search for the site whose data you want to restore, and then click the restore button in the action menu for that site.

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Next, select the backup plan from which you want to restore data. Click **View available plans**, and then select a plan from the list.

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Choose the backup version from all the backups that have already been performed — select the desired date and click the **Restore** button.

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Select the restore destination and click **Next**.

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In the next pane, select the data you want to restore, and then click **Restore selected**. Alternatively, click **Restore all** to restore all available data.

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Next, depending on the selected restore destination, configure the **Restore to** and **Restore directory** settings.

#### Restore to the original site

1. In the **Overwrite data** section, choose one of the following options:
   1. Don't overwrite site and its data.
   2. Overwrite only if existing resources are older than restored.
   3. Always overwrite.
2. In the **Site permissions** section, specify whether **Xopero ONE** should restore site permissions along with other site data.

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#### Restore to an existing site

1. In the **Restore to** pane, select the site where you want to restore the data, and click **Save**.

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2. In the **Overwrite data** section, choose one of the following options:
   1. Don't overwrite site and its data.
   2. Overwrite only if existing resources are older than restored.
   3. Always overwrite.
3. In the **Site permissions** section, specify whether **Xopero ONE** should restore site permissions along with other site data.

#### Restore to a new site

1. In the **Restore to** pane, select the **Microsoft 365** organization where you want to restore the data, and click **Save**.

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2. Next, enter a custom name for the new site.

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If the site URL is already in use, **SharePoint** will modify the new URL by adding a few characters to make it unique (typically, a number at the end).
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3. In the **Site permissions** section, specify whether **Xopero ONE** should restore site permissions along with other site data.

#### Restore to a device

1. In the **Restore to** pane, select the device to use as the restore destination, and click **Save**.
2. In the **Restore directory** section, select the directory where the data will be restored, and then click **Apply**.

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In **Restore settings**, you can limit bandwidth usage and select the default backup agent (worker) that will be used to restore the data (where applicable).

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After defining all parameters, click the **Restore** button to start the recovery process. You can monitor the process in the **Tasks** tab.
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