# Preview Salesforce objects and records before restore

Preview Salesforce objects and records and their relationships before restoring to verify data selection and reduce unintended overwrites. Use the restore preview feature to simulate a Salesforce restore operation and understand how record relationships and dependencies are handled before you commit to an actual restore.

Note

The restore preview feature is available only when the restore target is Salesforce.

After the preview job completes successfully, you can view the results to analyze specific objects and records selected for the restore and understand how relationships and dependent objects were resolved based on your configured restore options.

You can review the preview data using a flat summary view and an advanced tree traversal view. You can also download the preview job results as a file to review the objects and records offline.

- The flat summary view provides a list of all affected Salesforce objects alongside the total number of records that will be restored for each object.

- The advanced tree traversal view provides a visual hierarchy for troubleshooting. You an use this view to explore parent-child relationships, and understand why specific records or related objects were included in the preview. You can navigate the hierarchy tree to granularly inspect the data grid and see how complex dependencies and related records are mapped and resolved.

After you validate the preview data, you can initiate a restore job using the Restore from preview option.

To preview Salesforce objects and records before restore, follow these steps:

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

2. Go to the Organizations tab.

3. For the organization that contains the data that you want to restore, click the action button , and then click Restore.

4. Select Object level restore or Record level restore.

5. Configure the required restore settings.

6. Click Preview.

   The Commvault software starts a preview job. After the job is complete, the Preview tab is displayed on the job details page.

7. Click the Preview tab to view the data that will be restored.

8. In the left section, click an object to preview its related objects and records.

9. Review the preview results.

   To download specific records, select the records and then click Download selected records.

10. Confirm that the records and relationships match the intended restore scope.

11. Click Restore from preview to proceed with the restore operation.

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