Step 4. Select Metadata to Restore

At the Data step of the wizard, choose metadata files that you want to restore:

Select a metadata type to search for all metadata files of this type that belong to the organization selected at step 3. For a metadata type to be displayed in the list of available types, at least one file of this type must have a backup.
Click Search and select check boxes next to the necessary metadata files. You can also choose the version of each file — to do that, click the link in the Version column and select the necessary file version from the Restore point drop-down list.

Tip

To help you choose a version, Veeam Backup for Salesforce displays both the content of the selected backed-up file and the content of the file currently stored in Salesforce. If you want to view only those fields that have changed since the backup was created, set the Compare changes toggle to On.

By default, you can select up to 500,000 of metadata files for one restore session. To change this limit, modify the ui.restore.max.selected.records parameter value as described in section Configuring Advanced Settings.

Important

If you want to restore a metadata file that no longer exists in Salesforce, you must choose a file version created while the file was not deleted from Salesforce.
If you want to restore metadata of a custom object that was deleted from Salesforce permanently, you must restore the following types of metadata first: CustomObject, CustomTab, Layout and Profile. Note that when restoring metadata of the Profile type, you must choose all profiles that have access to the custom object.
If you delete a metadata field from Salesforce and then create a new field using the same API name, Veeam Backup for Salesforce will treat this field as a new item when restoring metadata and will not populate it with the values of the deleted field. If you want the restored field to have the same values as the deleted one, you must create a mapping rule for these fields as described in section Restoring Field Values.

Configuring Filtering Settings

Consider that Veeam Backup for Salesforce displays the maximum number of 500 metadata files per page. If you want to apply specific search conditions and reduce the number of search results, click Customize in the Filters field.

Veeam Backup for Salesforce provides a number of built-in conditional operators (such as contains, equals, starts with, is null and so on) that can be used to send requests to databases. Keep in mind that the time required to process a request depends on the operator you use — for example, processing a request with the equals operator will take less time than processing a request with the contains operator.

Note

The Value field is case sensitive for the following operators: starts with, ends with, equals, in, not equal to, not in.

By default, filters are combined by the AND logical operator. That is, a record is displayed in the search results only if all the specified conditions are met. You can change this behavior by combining filters using different operators. To do that, set the Use filter logic toggle to On, and specify the filter logic expression using condition ordinal numbers, brackets and logical operators — for example, 1 AND (2 OR 3) AND NOT 4.

Tip

You can download up to 100 metadata files to the local machine. To do that, select the necessary records and click Download.