Recovering what the restore lost.
THE SITUATION
You restored to a point in the past. Everything since is gone from the site, and some of it exists elsewhere.
WHERE TO LOOK FOR MISSING DATA
The payment gateway, for orders and transactions Your email, for form submissions and order notifications Your analytics, for what pages existed Any external system that received data The copy you took of the current state before restoring
FOR A SHOP
The gateway holds every transaction. Compare its record against your restored orders and re-enter the missing ones.
Contact those customers. They paid and their order may no longer exist in your system.
FOR FORM SUBMISSIONS
Notification emails in your inbox are a record. Re-enter them if the storage matters.
FOR CONTENT
Your pre-restore copy contains it. Extract the specific content and re-add it.
FOR USER REGISTRATIONS
Harder. Affected users may need to register again. Contact them.
DOING IT SYSTEMATICALLY
Work through a list rather than discovering gaps over weeks. Write down what was lost before you start.
