Restore

Getting started

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

If you're on the Starter plan, you can only recover your workspace under the same workspace. You will need to create an empty page called Notion Backups Restore and grant us 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

Some of the current limitations are:

Pages

• Top-level pages can only be nested under another page

Databases

• Database views don't get restored
• Database descriptions can contain maximum 2,000 characters per segment and 100 text segments total. Larger descriptions will be automatically truncated
• When databases have two-way (bidirectional) relations, only the primary relation is restored
• 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
• Relations are only restored to the same workspace

Blocks

• 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

Comments

• Comments will carry the integration's name and won't have accurate timestamps
• Only unresolved comments are restored

Others

• If you're on a free Notion plan, media files larger than 5MB cannot be restored. Paid plans allow up to 5GB (doesn't apply to externally-hosted files)
• Columns with more than 100 child blocks may not restore completely
• Nested column lists (columns within columns) may not restore correctly

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