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title: Data Restore
description: How to restore a previous version of a Data Controller table
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# Data Restore

For those tables which have [Audit Tracking](/dcc-tables/#audit_libds) enabled, it is possible to restore the data to an earlier state!

Simply open the submit to be reverted, and click the red REVERT button.  This will generate a NEW submission, containing the necessary reversal entries.  This new submission **must then be approved** in the usual fashion.

Note that there are some caveats to this feature:

- It will only work for TXTEMPORAL and UPDATE Load Types 
- The user must have EDIT permission to make a submission
- Changes made **outside** of Data Controller cannot be reversed
- If there are COLUMN or ROW level security rules, the restore will abort
- If the model has changed (new / deleted columns) the restore will abort
- Only submissions that have actually been loaded, can be reverted (obviously)