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# Airtable: restore a base from a snapshot

## Steps
1. Open your Airtable homepage.
2. Open the base you want to restore.
3. Click the base history icon in the upper-right corner.
4. Select the preferred snapshot under "Take a snapshot."
5. Name the new base and click Create.

Restoring a snapshot does NOT overwrite the original base — it creates a brand-new base from that saved state (preserving record, view, table, and interface IDs, but with a new app ID). If you have unsaved work in the current base you want to keep, take a new manual snapshot first (base history icon → Snapshots → Take a snapshot) before restoring an older one. Restored bases don't carry revision history, but do keep record comments. Retention window depends on plan (2 weeks on Free up to 3 years on Enterprise Scale).

## End state
A new base, named as chosen, appears containing the data and structure as of the selected snapshot.

Source: vendor documentation (https://support.airtable.com/articles/2163132802-taking-and-restoring-snapshots-in-airtable) (doc date not shown on the article); fetched 2026-10-30; not observed in a live UI.

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