"Restoring will change some of your Collection IDs, which may break integrations that rely on the CMS API."

[maxjoles (Max)]

Can someone from the Webflow team provide more specificity regarding what collections and item ID’s are changed when a backup is restored? The warning message feels a little ambiguous, given how important it is.

I’ve tested with a few backups in a sandbox environment and it looks like all item ids are changed/randomized every time a backup is restored. Is that correct?

[Chavez_Procope (Chavez)]

That’s correct @maxjoles.

I just had it happened to me as well. You can find more details in this post:

Collection IDs can change?

It’s crazy how many things the backup can mess up, all the reference and multi-reference fields, not even talking about API and zappier. Need backup of the back up. Wait? If i back up to the version before backup will it be fixed or it will generate another random set of ID?