Restoring Metadata
Veeam Backup for Salesforce allows you to recover metadata of objects deleted from Salesforce, including such object metadata types and components as Apex classes, connected app configurations, reports, dashboards and so on.
When recovering metadata components, make sure that you also recover all its dependencies. For example:
- If you want to restore the configuration of a connected app, you must restore the ConnectedApp metadata file first.
- If you want to restore session settings of a user profile, you must restore the ProfileSessionSetting metadata file first.
- If you want to restore password policies of a user profile, you must restore the ProfilePasswordPolicy metadata file first.
Important |
If you want to restore a Salesforce object to another organization, you must create a dedicated metadata restore job first — but only in case metadata of the object that you want to restore does not match metadata of the object in the target organization. |
To create a metadata restore job, perform the following steps:
- Launch the Restore Metadata wizard.
- Specify a name and description for the restore job.
- Select Salesforce organizations.
- Select objects whose metadata will be restored.
- Review the restore list.
- Finish working with the wizard.
Important |
After you restore metadata of an object deleted from Salesforce, you must manually run the backup policy protecting this object to create a new record version (backup) that you can further use to restore records of the deleted object. Without this backup, Veeam Backup for Salesforce will not be able to discover this object when running restore operations. |
