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How to Restore Calendars in Spanning Backup

Once you log in to Spanning Backup, take these steps to restore a calendar back into your Google Apps account.

1) Click “Restore” in the left-hand navigation
2) Select “Calendars” in the main window

3) Select the version of the calendar you wish to restore (sorted by date)

Note: You will have at least one version of each of your calendars associated with each day that you’ve been a customer – that’s the automatic daily backup. You can see that for this user, there are two November 29th versions that can be restored. That means that this user did an on-demand backup in addition to the automatic backup that day.

In this example, I want to restore two calendars to the way they were on November 28th.

4) Click the “Restore Calendars…” button

Once you click that button, a “Restore Calendars” window will open containing a list of your calendars.

5) Click the check box next to each calendar you’d like to restore.

In this example, I want to restore “GloNanoCo Corporate” and “Travel Calendar”.

6) Click the “Restore” button

You’re done! The calendars you selected will be restored right back into your account, and they’ll look just like they did on the date you selected. This includes all events, recurrences, and exceptions; as well as metadata like color, time zone, location, privacy settings, and sharing settings.

How to Restore Documents in Spanning Backup

Once you sign in to your Spanning Backup account, click the “Restore” tab on the left side of the screen, then select “Documents”.

If you’re looking for the most recent version of the document(s) you need, click the most recent date. If you need to restore a previous version of a document, click on the date when that version was saved. In this example, I am going to restore from Friday, October 28. First click the date, then click the “Restore Documents” button.

You will see the Restore Documents window pop up with all of your folders displayed. If you want to restore entire folders, just check the ones you want to restore. Their folder structures will be restored also. In this example, I am going to restore the entire Work folder, including all of its sub-folders.

Once the restore is finished, there will be a folder in Google Docs named “Restored from 28-Oct-2011”. When we open it, we see the exact same file structure from the original Work folder. The contents of the folders are identical to its contents on October 28.

Of course, if you only needed to restore one file, you would repeat the process with only one file selected in the Restore Documents window. In Google Docs, the only content of the “Restored from 28-Oct- 2011” folder would be “Margarita Recipe”.

Feel free to comment if you have questions. Also refer to the Support FAQ on our Support Page.

Happy Doc Restoring!