Creating Restore Session for Organization by Organization ID

In this article

You can start a restore session for the specified organization.

Request

POST https://<hostname>:4443/v5/Organizations/{organizationId}/action

Request Headers

The request header must contain an authorization token of the current session.

Request Parameters

The following parameter must be specified in the URL of the request:

Parameter	Type	Description
organizationId	string	Specifies the identification number of the Office 365 organization. For more information on how to get this parameter, see Getting Organizations.

Request Body

To start a restore session, the request body must contain the explore action properties:

Property	Type	Description
datetime	UTC	Specifies the date and time. You can specify the date and the time in one of the following formats: <yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS> <yyyy.MM.dd hh:mm:ss>
type	sessionType	Specifies the type of the restore session to start: vex vesp veod vet
showDeleted	boolean	Specifies the restore session will show the deleted items.
showAllVersions	boolean	Specifies the restore session will show all versions of backed-up items.

The request command will start a restore session only for backups that were created at the time you specified. The firstBackuptime and lastBackuptime properties of the /Organization/{organizationId} resource inform you when the organization's data was backed up for the first and last times.

Mind the following:

If you specify the point in time which precedes the organization's first backup time, the restore session will be created with no backup data for explore or restore.
If you specify the point in time which exceeds the organization's last backup time, the restore session will be created with backup data as of the latest restore point.

Response

The server returns the following response to the client.

Response Codes

A successfully completed operation returns a response code 201 Created.

Response Headers

The response to this request contains the following headers. The response may also include additional standard HTTPS headers.

Header	Description
Content-length	The length of the response body.
Content-type	The media type and syntax of the response body message: application/json; charset=utf-8

Response Body

In the response body, the server returns a resource representation of the /Organization/{organizationId}/action resource.

Examples

Example 1

Request:

POST https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/Organizations/3c424478-0811-4920-8aab-01f0bf2a2822/action

Request Header:

Authorization: Bearer <Access-Token>

Request Body:

{

"explore": {

"datetime": "2020-10-30T10:54:40.2794046Z",

"type": "vet",

"showAllVersions": false,

"showDeleted": false

}

Response:

201 Created

Response Body:

{

"id": "8caccbcb-3e6c-4e55-83b2-d7d196e11cbe",

"name": "Teams restore (Entire organization - 10/30/2020 10:29:05 AM)",

"organization": "abc.onmicrosoft.com",

"type": "Vet",

"creationTime": "2020-10-30T14:51:36.0833712Z",

"endTime": "2020-10-30T14:51:36.0833712Z",

"state": "Working",

"result": "Success",

"initiatedBy": "EPSILON\\Administrator",

"_links": {

"self": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/RestoreSessions/8caccbcb-3e6c-4e55-83b2-d7d196e11cbe"

"organization": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/RestoreSessions/8caccbcb-3e6c-4e55-83b2-d7d196e11cbe/organization"

"restoreSessionEvents": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/RestoreSessions/8caccbcb-3e6c-4e55-83b2-d7d196e11cbe/events"

}