Retrieve deleted pages

[askdctm]

Hi All,

Suppose by mistake, thousands of pages in author are deleted. What would be the best way to retrieve them?
Probably the only details we would know is the approximate time, as to when it was deleted.
Any thoughts on this will be helpful.

[shekhardhiman]

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out to Adobe Community.

Please go through the below link to know about restoring the pages through console: It can be used to restore a version of the page which was previously deleted.

https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-0/author/page-authoring/working-with-page-versions.html#Restori... a Page Version from the Console - Classic UI

Thanks!

[smacdonald2008]

See this topic:

https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/cq/5-6-1/core/administering/backup_and_restore.html

if you did a backup of the data - you can restore it. 

[askdctm]

Hi Shekhar,

Thank you for your reply.

In a scenario, where thousands of pages are deleted by mistake from various locations. What would be the best possible way to retrieve all of them in the best posible manner.

[Jörg_Hoh · Accepted solution]

Hi,

When you have a lot of deleted pages in many different locations, and you don't have any more details, you should create code, which reads the audit log and then tries based on various assumptions (timestamp, user) to restore a page. This is effort, but the case is rather unique.

kind regards,
Jörg