Restoring OneDrive Documents

Before you start performing restore, check Considerations and Limitations.

To restore a specific OneDrive document from the backup:

  1. On the Microsoft 365 page, click the name of the tenant you want to manage.
  2. Select Flex Restore.
  3. Go to the OneDrive tab.
  4. By default, Veeam Data Cloud uses the latest available restore point for data restore. If you want to select another restore point, click on the  Restore Point information box. On the calendar, select the date and time when the necessary restore point was created and click Apply.
  5. Click the name of the OneDrive that contains the document you want to restore.
  6. Click on the folder that contains the document you want to restore.
  7. Select the check box next to the necessary document in the list of items. You can select multiple documents.
  8. Click Restore.

Restoring OneDrive Document

  1. In the Restore OneDrive Document window, you can check the name of the user account and document you want to restore, the time when the backup that contains the document was created and the selected restore point.
  2. In the Restore destination section, select where to restore the OneDrive document. You can select one of the following options:
  • Restore to original location. Select this option if you want to restore the OneDrive document to its original location.
  • Restore to alternate location. Select this option if you want to restore the OneDrive document to the OneDrive of another Microsoft 365 user.

If you select this option, do the following:

  1. In the Organization member field, specify the target user account.
  2. In the Target folder path field, specify the name of the folder where to restore the OneDrive document.

Restoring OneDrive Document

  1. [Optional] In the Restore reason section, specify a reason for the restore.
  2. [For restore to the original location] If you want to specify advanced restore options, do the following:
  1. Click the Advanced options toggle.
  2. In the History restore options section, select one of the following options:
  • Overwrite. Select this option to overwrite items in the production environment with the latest version of items in the backup.
  • Keep. Select this option if you want to preserve the existing data in the production environment and restore missing items from the backup. Any overlapping items are also recovered with the RESTORED prefix in the file name.
  1. [For restore to OneDrive of another user account] If you want to specify advanced restore options, do the following:
  1. Click the Advanced options toggle.
  2. In the History restore options section, select the Restore only the latest version check box if you want to restore only the latest version of items. If you select this check box, you can select one of the following options:
  • Overwrite. Select this option to overwrite items in the production environment with the latest version of items in the backup.
  • Merge. Select this option to merge the latest version of items in the backup into items in the production environment. Only the latest file versions from the backup are restored and they are added (merged) to the existing file version history (if any).

Restoring OneDrive Document

  1. Click Restore to start the restore process.

tip

You can download OneDrive documents to your computer. To do that, select the check box next to the OneDrive document and click Download. Veeam Data Cloud will save the OneDrive document to a .ZIP file. For more information on how to get the downloaded data, see Obtaining Downloaded Items.