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title: "Step 5. Choose Attachments to Restore"
description: "At the Files step of the wizard, you can instruct Veeam Backup for Salesforce to restore files associated with the records selected at step 4."
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breadcrumb: "User Guide > Performing Salesforce Restore > Creating Restore Jobs > Restoring Records > Step 5. Choose Attachments to Restore"
dateModified: "2026-10-16"
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# Step 5. Choose Attachments to Restore

At the **Files** step of the wizard, you can instruct Veeam Backup for Salesforce to restore files associated with the records selected at [step 4](restore_record_data.md). To do that, set the **Restore attachments** toggle to *On* and apply filters to choose files that you want to restore. If you do not specify any filtering conditions, Veeam Backup for Salesforce will restore all files associated with the selected record.

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. Note 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.

For a file to be displayed in the list of available files, it must be associated with the selected record and have a backup.

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- If you choose to restore an encrypted file to a production organization, Veeam Backup for Salesforce will decrypt the file and fully restore its content. However, if you choose to restore an encrypted file to a sandbox organization, Veeam Backup for Salesforce will not decrypt the file for security reasons and therefore will create only an empty copy of this file.
- Using this type of restore, you can restore only the latest version of a file. If you want to restore any of the previous file versions, you must create a separate [file restore job](restore_file_create.md).

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[![Restoring Records](images/restore_records_files.png "Restoring Records")](images/restore_records_files.png){.toggle scale=60}