# Restoring Cosmos DB for Table Tables

You can restore a Cosmos DB for Table table to the same Cosmos DB account or a different account (cross account restore), to the same Azure subscription or a different subscription. You can also restore a table with the same name or a different name.

## Procedure

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

   The database overview page appears.

2. On the Instances tab, in the row for the instance, click the action button , and then click Restore.

   The Backup content dialog box appears.

3. Select the backup content to restore, and then click Restore.

   The Restore options dialog box appears.

4. From the Destination instance list, select the cloud account:

   - To restore to the same account, leave the value at its initial setting.

   - To restore to a different account (cross account restore), select a different account from the Destination instance list.

5. To redirect the restored tables to a different Cosmos DB account, move the Redirect all tables toggle key to the right, and then from the list select a destination account.

6. In the Number of parallel writers box, type the number of streams to use.

7. To restore tables that already exist on the destination, move the Overwrite destination tables toggle key to the right.

   If you do not enable this setting and a table already exists on the destination, the restore might fail.

8. To restore a table with a different name, under Content, in the Destination box for the table, type a new name.

9. You can configure a schedule to repeat this restore operation. To create a schedule, do the following:

   1. Click Schedule.

      The Add schedule dialog box appears.

   2. In the Name box, type a name for the schedule.

   3. Configure the Frequency and Repeat parameters.

   4. To specify exceptions to the schedule, click Exceptions.

      The Exceptions dialog box appears.

   5. Configure the exception parameters:

      - You can click Add Exception to save a set of exception parameters and continue adding sets of exception parameters.

      - Click Save when you have finished configuring the exception parameters.

   6. Under the Range of recurrence section, specify the Start date and End date to schedule the recurrence range of the restore operation.

   7. To save the schedule and return to the restore dialog box, click Schedule.

10. Click Submit.

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