When you have content on your Cloud environment and clone down your project to your local machine, you need to restore the content. You will also need to use the restore option when setting up new Cloud environments.

The restore option can be used to always ensure you work with the latest content when developing new features.

How to Restore Content

You can restore the content in the following ways:

Restore when starting up the project locally

The first time you run your project locally you will have the option to restore your content and media before going to the Umbraco Backoffice.

1. Run the website locally.

2. Click the green Restore button to restore all the content nodes and media files.

3. Wait till the process completes. This might take a while depending on the amount of content and media you have on your project.

All your content and media is now available in the Umbraco Backoffice.

Workspace Restore

Use this option when setting up new Cloud environments. The Workspace restore option restores all the entities (content, media, forms, datasources, and prevalue sources from Umbraco Forms) of a workspace via the Backoffice.

1. Log in to the Umbraco Backoffice on the environment you want to restore the content and media.

2. Click ... and select Do something else or Right-click the Content Tree in the Content section.

3. Choose Workspace Restore.

Tree Restore

The Tree restore option restores all the entities available for the selected tree in that section. It's available in the Content, Media, Members, Forms (root node of Forms, Datasources, and Prevalue sources), or Translation (Dictionary menu if configured) sections. Using Tree Restore, you can choose to restore only content. This will restore any media that’s referenced in that content, but it won’t attempt to restore the full media library.

1. Log in to the Umbraco Backoffice in the environment you want to restore the tree.

2. Click ... and select Do something else or Right-click the Content Tree in the Content section.

3. Choose Tree Restore.

Using the Partial Restore option, you can restore single nodes from a tree (optionally with descendants) that you need to work with.

In some cases, you might not want to restore the entire content tree but only the parts that you need. Partial restore is a feature that allows for restoring specific parts of your content instead of restoring everything.

You can use Partial Restore on:

• Empty environments - Requires Umbraco Deploy 3.3+.

• Environments with existing content or media

Empty Environment

In this scenario, the Cloud environment is cloned to your local machine or a new Cloud environment has been created. In both cases, the new environment will have an empty Content section as well as an empty Media section.

To partially restore the parts you need:

1. Go to the Content section of the Umbraco backoffice on your new environment (local or Cloud).

2. Right-click the Content tree or click the three dots and select Do something else.

3. Choose Partial Restore.

Partial Restores on empty environments are helpful when not all content or media is necessary for the tasks to be performed on the new environment. Instead of having to restore everything, doing a partial restore can be used to only restore the parts you need. This will ensure that you can quickly get on your way with the task at hand.

Environment with existing Content or Media

It is possible to use the Partial Restore feature in environments where you already have content in the Content tree.

1. Go to the Content section of your Umbraco backoffice.

2. Right-click the content node which you know contains updates.

3. Choose Partial Restore.