How to retrieve a previous dataset in Sanity.io using the History API.

Hello,Does sanity keep dataset backups somewhere or is it something that needs to be done manually?
Is there a way to retrieve a dataset as of yesterday?

I have mistakenly overwritten the production dataset with the development one which is few months old, and I cannot find any option on the website to restore a previous dataset. (project is on team plan if that helps)

Best,
User

You’d have to do it manually with the export functionality I’m afraid. 😞

Maybe a support engineer can help you though.

Thanks User, how do I reach a support engineer?

Someone will reach out to you I guess.

Thanks 🙂 I'll wait

Hi User,This might be a case we cannot solve
😔. We generally recommend folks adopt their own backup routine; either by exporting their dataset or by making use of our cloud dataset cloning (for enterprise customers).However since you didn't delete the dataset in this case, it might be possible to rework it with information from the
History API if you feel comfortable writing a script. If you wish to explore that route, please let us know if we can assist in any way.
😊

Hi , yep I've written sanity scripts before so I might get down to that route.
Does the history gets preserved even if I ran a restore with the

--replace

flag? From a quick check on the backend everything seem to be dated back to April, some documents even on February with the exception of new documents which have been preserved

Yes, history should be preserved via the transaction log.You can confirm this by running the command below, replacing these variables:
•

AUTH_TOKEN

(obtained via

sanity debug --secrets

in the CLI)•

PROJECT_ID

•

DATASET_NAME

•

DOCUMENT_ID

(any

ID

of a document that was replaced)

omg, it works

Life saver! Thank you very much!!!

yay

Wonderful we were able to help you out!