Undo changes before an hour or more (Not restoring Deleted items) Can we restore a board back to certain time .
Would be great to have this feature. Really helpful when so many depart works on the same board and someone accidently do the changes that should not be done.
I just today am running into exactly this issue. Basically trying to get a board back to the state it was in two days ago.
I think a more robust backup/activity system would be nice. Something like Google Sheets where you can see what individual users changed and revert back to prior states. Would probably need to be an Admin only system and required some gates before just reverting data. Not sure how something like this would affect automations, integrations, connected boards etc.
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Hi @Bhavyaka, @sschreiner and @andrewalmand
I’m a product manager at Rewind.com We’re currently building am automated backup and restore solution that will allow you to backup and restore your Monday’s workspaces, including boards to any point in time. I’d love to have a chat with you to understand your Monday restore needs. Here’s my email, please feel free to reach out to me: maria.korolenko[at]rewind.io
Here’s more information on backup for Monday: Monday.com Backups and Cloud Data Protection - Rewind
Hi!
Please build this feature faster. The backup and restore solution are needed urgently. I was accidentally change something in select all mode, and I couldn’t undo that! I took a very long time to change them back. it was more than 100 items!!!
Thank you
Hi @dantichi
I’d love to chat with you about your backup needs as we are currently building the backups for monday at Rewind.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me at maria.korolenko[at]rewind. io
Hi @dantichi and @Bhavyaka , we might be able to help you: Our team has built an automated monday.com backup app. It offers the option to see daily snapshots of your boards and restore them back to your monday.com account. This is possible for both active, archived or deleted boards.
Here’s more information: monday.com Backup
Pro Backup for monday.com will be soon available on the app market & integration center.
Hi,
I wholly support that there is a dire need for trustworthy backup solutions in monday.com
As great a tool monday.com is, I am very apprehensive about having our company use it at the moment. Without some more trust into long-term availability of our data and availability of our data in case of monday’s potential though hopefully never demise, It’s hard to commit to more use of monday.com.
The daily export feature is not sufficient right now. As far as I could tell, the relations between boards are not saved in there. Neither are dashboard layouts, etc.
An external backup service, hosted in the EU, would be a solution.
Rewind however is based in the US and horribly expensive.
While ProBackup is in the EU but just not a trustworthy tool atm.
I tested ProBackup last week and my findings were:
- Their notion of backup is, to copy your boards and workspaces to google sheets in their google cloud. That seems to be in conflict with their promise of a GDPR-conform backup, as of the latest ruling in that regard.
- They are correctly backing up items, workspaces and relations between boards as well as subtables
- They are unable to restore whole workspaces as of now
- They advertise that they can restore single selective items in a board, but they can only add new items with old data, not restore present items to a previous version. (a limitation of the monday API I’m sure)
- Their restore is FAULTY and a backup tool that mangles data on restore is worse that no backup tool
On my test last week, I restored three items in a board in a test-workspace. The three items had a column connected to another board.
For the test I waited three days until everything had been backed up.
Then I remove a column and changed some of the selections in the column connected to another board. I did not add or remove items in the connected board.
When i tried the restore of the 3 items (which actually means, adding 3 new items with old data, but that would have been fine), I found that
- the missing column was not restored, but silently ignored
- only the first items connected column was correctly restored, the other two items contained random selections from the connected board. Definitely not the original data.
This might actually not be ProBackup’s Fault, but due to changes in the monday.com API since ProBackup developed their tool. But even so, it seems that they failed to verify the functionality of their BackupApp on a daily basis and highlights the fact that this is really a feature that monday.com needs to provide by itself to it’s users, and currently that is very sadly not happening ;-|
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I am lending my support to this. We had a mishap which lost the connected board data in at least 750 items. This will take a very long time to restore. If we could have just restored back to yesterday’s state, it would save days of time.
We are an enterprise customer and I am astounded that there is no in-built backup and restore in Monday. It could be a dealbreaker. What if one of our staff or administrators decides to act maliciously? Yes, you can restore deleted items, but that doesn’t solve every problem. A lot of chaos could be created that would be irreversible. While it’s great that there are paid apps that you can use, this is core functionality that we should not need to pay extra for.
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Hi everyone!
I want to share that FluentPro has an automated Monday.com backup and restore solution.
FluentPro Backup allows you to restore your Monday board to a specific time easily. You can customize the backup frequency to fit your needs, scheduling backups several times daily. FluentPro Backup saves multiple project versions, recording all changes and activities made at specific points in time. It allows you to restore different project versions, compare them, and choose the necessary ones without impacting the source projects.
Get more information about FluentPro Backup
Hello Everyone!
We have exciting news 
! LogBack is here! This new app, announced in monday marketplace, is a game-changer for board management.
With LogBack, you can effortlessly restore most of your board’s activity log, minimizing the risk of data loss and human mistakes.
We encourage you to give the app a try and recommend it to anyone you believe would find it relevant 
Click here to add LogBack to your monday account
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My organization has had multiple issues with our administration team accidentally mass updating columns and not realizing it. It would be extremely helpful if Monday.com developed a Mass Update archive feature. This would be similar in nature to the exiting ability to restore deleted items and archived items except it would store all of of the previous values that were part of a mass update and allow users to restore those values in the click of a single button. Currently If one misses the opportunity to click the undo button the only option is to export the changes that were made in error to excel from the activity log, clean the data to only include the prior values, and then import the values back into the board. This is time consuming and opens the door for human error.
An alternative feature enhancement would be to replace the undo button with a preemptive “Are You Sure You Want To Update All Rows” button which would be an alert to the user that they have changed certain data in mass as opposed to the undo button which appears after the changes have been made. This would be a preemptive mistake mitigating feature.
Hey @PSCDustin,
I hear where you’re coming from here.
Can I ask if the existing feature requests here are relevant to what you’re hoping for?
I ask this as if you believe your request aligns with the existing threads we can merge your request into the existing threads to increase votes and put greater emphasis on this need 
This is a must, especially for new users like myself who are tinkerers/button pushers first, and user guide readers second. I added dependencies without clicking the right options and just messed up a bunch of tasks with date ranges that has to be undone manually which is tedious and seemingly unnecessary. Versions, rollback abilities for boards seems like a excellent feature especially for users of your higher tier subscriptions.
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Hi @bernhard , I appreciate that you took the time to fully test our app and share your findings here. This is very helpful for our team to make our app even better. Looking at your comments though, there are a few things I would like to address:
- The sync to Google Drive has been updated with Pro Backup 2.0: You can now sync your data backups to YOUR Google Drive so that you remain owner of the data.
- Restore of an entire worspace is indeed not possible due to technical contraints. However, we back up all relevant data for you to restore a workspace if really needed (files, comments, field configurations). This process would however involve some manual work and require some time, but at least you’re able to recover from it. We’ve had a handful of cases where we were successfully able to assist customers that had list entire workspaces in monday.com
- When we restore single records we create indeed a copy from the data backup. This copy is added as a new record to the existing board. This is both a technical limitation but also prevents users to accidentally overwrite existing data. It is possible however to restore a specific snapshots of a particular same record: Each time an item is updated, we create a new version in our backup so you can use Pro Backup as a sort of time machine to back in time for a certain set of records. This video gives you more insights on how the restore process works for monday.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAopcKXU7J4
- The restore case that you describe is an interesting one as you are testing two use cases at the same time: 1) Deleted columns can be restored back to the board (including their values) and 2) deleted items can be restored as well. If you want to revert both actions (i.e. bring back the column + the items), then you can only do this by restoring a previous of the entire board. The video that I shared gives you more insights on this.
Lastly I just want to mention that our tool has improved significantly since the time you’ve tested it: We’ve completely redesigned the UX and added more features such restore reports, deletion reports, audit logs, virus scanners, etc. Here’s a product tour video of the updated app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YscJxTBHU9k
I just pasted over an entire column of hundreds of entries, found LogBack and installed the 14 day trial. A few minutes later and all is restored. Highly recommended! It’s not a “reset to earler version of the board” type thing. Rather, you get a timestamped entry for each change that was made. Of course they all have the same timestamp since it was a single past that did it. You just select (or CMD/SHIFT select) the entries you want to revert and the click a button and wait a bit. Loved that I was able to just do one entry first to be sure what it was going to do. Definitely recommending my company purchase the full version.
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Hi @timoutright, Thanks for sharing your experience! Happy to hear LogBack worked well for you. Appreciate the recommendation!