Restore

Getting started

Before you can restore your workspace, it needs to be backed up at least once.

There are two ways to restore your workspace:

• Workspace root — pages are restored directly to the sidebar. This is the simplest option, especially when restoring to a different workspace. Available on the Pro plan.
• Under a page — pages are restored under a page called Notion Backups Restore that you create in the destination workspace. You will need to reauthorize your workspace to grant us access to this page. Your existing workspace data will not be overwritten.

If you're on the Starter plan, you can only recover your workspace under the same workspace.

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

Restores can only be performed into workspaces connected with read-write access.

Limitations

Some of the current limitations are:

Databases

• Database views are not restored.
• Database descriptions can contain a maximum of 2,000 characters per text segment and 100 text segments. Larger descriptions are automatically truncated.
• Database property descriptions are truncated to 280 characters.
• Data source descriptions are not restored.
• Created by, Created time, Last edited by, Last edited time, Button, and Verification values are not restored.
• Formula properties are restored only when all dependencies can be mapped safely.
• Rollup properties are restored only when their Relation property and target property are restored.
• Unique ID properties are recreated without their original prefix or number. Notion assigns new numbers.
• Status options and values are restored, but Notion rebuilds the Status group layout.
• Select, multi-select, and Status properties with more than 100 options are truncated to the first 100 options.
• Relations are restored only when both related data sources and the related pages are included in the same restore.
• A Relation value can contain a maximum of 100 related pages during restore.

Blocks

• Some block types are not restored. These include link previews, templates, buttons, forms, meeting notes, and synced blocks.
• Some embed blocks might not look the same after restore.
• Block order might change, especially after an incremental backup updates existing blocks.
• Blocks with large text content, such as code, paragraphs, and list items, are split into smaller blocks.
• A column with more than 100 direct child blocks might not restore completely.

Comments

• Restored comments are new comments. They use the integration name and do not keep the original timestamps.
• Only unresolved comments are restored.

Other limitations

• On a free Notion plan, media files larger than 5 MiB cannot be restored. Paid plans allow files up to 5 GiB. This limit does not apply to externally hosted files.
• Unsupported file types are put in a ZIP archive.

If you restore to a different workspace, People properties and @mentions work correctly only when the users also exist in the destination workspace.