If a document is deleted in Appian, but I have a backup of the file in the backend, can it be recovered?https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/data/24181/if-a-document-is-deleted-in-appian-but-i-have-a-backup-of-the-file-in-the-backend-can-it-be-recoveredWe are trying to clean up unnecessary documents in our Appian instance. We would like a way to do this process but also have a way to recover the files that we delete if we need to roll back. Is there a process we can go through to backup Appian documentsen-USTelligent Community 12RE: If a document is deleted in Appian, but I have a backup of the file in the backend, can it be recovered?https://community.appian.com/thread/93252?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:24:41 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:2bdc7c76-6ba3-4d4f-acde-91f9db484beaDimitris Soulovaris<p>Why you don&#39;t use an external system like an FTP / SFTP server to store those documents&nbsp;before you&nbsp;delete them.</p> <p>You can use this plugin&nbsp;<a href="/b/appmarket/posts/sftp-smart-services">https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/sftp-smart-services</a>&nbsp;which contains all the smart services you need to automatically upload, download or delete a file from the server.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>RE: If a document is deleted in Appian, but I have a backup of the file in the backend, can it be recovered?https://community.appian.com/thread/93249?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 05 Apr 2022 19:34:19 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:9ab4218a-a964-4fa3-8917-5b58aecd96e5joetempchin<p>Unfortunately the scale of this document deletion is too large to do any kind of manual uploading. Additionally, the application created the documents, so the only version of them that we have is what is stored in Appian.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>RE: If a document is deleted in Appian, but I have a backup of the file in the backend, can it be recovered?https://community.appian.com/thread/93244?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 05 Apr 2022 17:21:14 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:05604eb7-5f94-4495-8152-abae9221ab08Stefan Helzle<p>So, these documents are not used anywhere in an application? This means, you did not store the ID anywhere. Then the ID does not matter and you could just upload the document again. This means that you could just delete these files including the metadata. Once you find out that you need one of them, just upload it to Appian.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>RE: If a document is deleted in Appian, but I have a backup of the file in the backend, can it be recovered?https://community.appian.com/thread/93242?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 05 Apr 2022 16:40:29 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:b906ebef-bef0-4fef-a07a-7a4eeeb64a1fjoetempchin<p>Hi Stefan</p> <p>We have discovered that we are generating extra documents in our production environment that we do not need to store. We have since fixed the issue, but would like to clear out the extra documents as they are taking up disk space. We are looking to develop a rollback procedure if our process for finding and deleting these extra documents is un-successful.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>RE: If a document is deleted in Appian, but I have a backup of the file in the backend, can it be recovered?https://community.appian.com/thread/93240?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 05 Apr 2022 16:36:39 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:d7ebac24-19ad-4437-b5fb-01e232ba7f2aStefan Helzle<p>You have an interesting use case. Would you mind giving more details?</p> <p>I do not know of a official way to recover the metadata of documents. Did you try to contact Appian?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>