Restore

Getting started

Before you can restore your workspace, it needs to be backed up at least once. To make sure that the restore process goes as smoothly as possible, reauthorize your workspace from the workspace settings and include all the pages you want to back up.

If you're on the Starter plan, you can only restore your workspace under the same workspace. You will need to create an empty page called "Notion Backups Restore" and grant Notion Backups access to it. Your existing workspace data will not be overwritten.

If you're on the Pro plan, you can also restore your data to another workspace.

Once you initiate the restore, you will receive detailed instructions via email.

Limitations

There are some limitations imposed by Notion's API, which make a complete restore impossible at this moment. Some of the current limitations are:

• Top-level pages can only be nested under another page
• Read-only properties such as Rollup, Formula, Button, Unique ID, Created by, Created time, Last edited by, Last edited time, and Status cannot be restored
• Multi-select properties with more than 100 options will have their options truncated to the first 100
• Media files larger than 20MB cannot be restored (doesn't apply to externally-hosted files)
• Database views don't get restored
• Relations are only restored to the same workspace
• Some block types aren't supported (link preview, templates, buttons)
• Some embed blocks may not display correctly
• The order of blocks might not always be preserved
• Blocks with large text content (e.g. code, paragraphs, list items) will be split into smaller chunks
• When databases have two-way (bidirectional) relations, only the primary relation is restored
• Only unresolved comments are restored
• Columns with more than 100 child blocks may not restore completely
• Nested column lists (columns within columns) may not restore correctly
• Comments will carry the integration's name and won't have accurate timestamps

If you're restoring to a different workspace, additional limitations may apply:

• Synced blocks can't be restored
• People properties and @mentions will only work correctly if the mentioned users also exist in the workspace you're restoring to