Restore a Power BI Workspace Items to Its Original Location

You can restore Microsoft Power BI workspaces items to their original locations to recover from data loss, corruption, or unwanted changes.

Restore Power BI Data

1. From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Protect > Power Platform.

2. Select the Power BI app that contains thw workspace you want to restore.

3. On the upper-right area of the screen, click Restore.

4. From the list, browse the workspace contents and select the folders, or individual items (such as reports) you want to restore, and then click Next.

   Note

   To download an offline copy of a report backup, locate the report in the browse menu and click the action button and then select Download.

5. From the Power BI dropdown, select Restore the data to original location, and then click Next.

6. On the Options tab,

   • To not overwrite existing items, select Skip.

   • To overwrite existing items, select Unconditionally overwrite.

     Caution

     Selecting Unconditionally overwrite replaces the current model with the backed-up model.

   • To include deleted items, select Include deleted items.

7. Click Next.

8. Review the items you selected for restore, and then click Submit to start the restore operation.

   The Summary tab appears.

9. Click Close.