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- NAME
- gcloud alpha storage restore - restore one or more soft-deleted objects
- SYNOPSIS
gcloud alpha storage restore[URLS…][--all-versions,-a][--async][--[no-]preserve-acl,-p][--read-paths-from-stdin,-I][--allow-overwrite--created-after-time=CREATED_AFTER_TIME--created-before-time=CREATED_BEFORE_TIME--deleted-after-time=DELETED_AFTER_TIME--deleted-before-time=DELETED_BEFORE_TIME][--if-generation-match=GENERATION--if-metageneration-match=METAGENERATION][GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
- DESCRIPTION
(ALPHA)The restore command restores soft-deleted resources:gcloudalphastoragerestoreurl…- EXAMPLES
- Restore soft-deleted version of bucket with generations:
gcloudalphastoragerestoregs://bucket#123Restore several soft-deleted buckets with generations:
gcloudalphastoragerestoregs://bucket1#123gs://bucket2#456Restore latest soft-deleted version of object in a bucket.
gcloudalphastoragerestoregs://bucket/file1.txtRestore a specific soft-deleted version of object in a bucket by specifying thegeneration.
gcloudalphastoragerestoregs://bucket/file1.txt#123Restore all soft-deleted versions of object in a bucket.
gcloudalphastoragerestoregs://bucket/file1.txt--all-versionsRestore several objects in a bucket (with or without generation):
gcloudalphastoragerestoregs://bucket/file1.txtgs://bucket/file2.txt#456Restore the latest soft-deleted version of all text objects in a bucket:
gcloudalphastoragerestoregs://bucket/**.txtRestore a list of objects read from stdin (with or without generation):
catlist-of-files.txt|gcloudalphastoragerestore--read-paths-from-stdinRestore object with its original ACL policy:
gcloudalphastoragerestoregs://bucket/file1.txt--preserve-aclRestore all objects in a bucket asynchronously:
gcloudalphastoragerestoregs://bucket/**--asyncRestore all text files in a bucket asynchronously:
gcloudalphastoragerestoregs://bucket/**.txt--asyncRestore objects created within a specific time range:
gcloudalphastoragerestoregs://bucket/**--async--created-after-time="2023-01-01T00:00:00Z"--created-before-time="2023-01-31T23:59:59Z"Restore objects soft-deleted within a specific time range:
gcloudalphastoragerestoregs://bucket/**--async--deleted-after-time="2023-01-01T00:00:00Z"--deleted-before-time="2023-01-31T23:59:59Z"Restore objects using a combination of creation and deletion time filters:
gcloudalphastoragerestoregs://bucket/**--async--allow-overwrite--created-after-time="2023-01-01T00:00:00Z"--deleted-after-time="2023-01-01T00:00:00Z"This command filters the objects that were live at 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z and thensoft-deleted afterwards. This combination of filters is especially helpful ifthere is a period of erroneous overwrites. They allow you to go back to thepoint just before the overwrites began. You will also need to set the
--allow-overwriteoption to true. - POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
- [
URLS…] - The url of objects to list.
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- FLAGS
- SYNCHRONOUS RESTORE OPTIONS
--all-versions,-a- Restores all versions of soft-deleted objects.
This flag is only useful for buckets with [object versioning](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/object-versioning) enabled. In this case,the latest soft-deleted version will become live and the previous generationswill become noncurrent.
If versioning is disabled, the latest soft-deleted version will become live andprevious generations will be soft-deleted again.
This flag disables parallelism to preserve version order.
--async- Initiates an asynchronous bulk restore operation on the specified bucket.
--[no-]preserve-acl,-p- Preserves ACLs when copying in the cloud. This option is Cloud Storage-only, andyou need OWNER access to all copied objects. If all objects in the destinationbucket should have the same ACL, you can also set a default object ACL on thatbucket instead of using this flag. Preserving ACLs is the default behavior forupdating existing objects. Use
--preserve-aclto enable and--no-preserve-aclto disable. --read-paths-from-stdin,-I- Read the list of URLs from stdin.
- BULK RESTORE OPTIONS
--allow-overwrite- If included, live objects will be overwritten. If versioning is enabled, thiswill result in a noncurrent object. If versioning is not enabled, this willresult in a soft-deleted object.
--created-after-time=CREATED_AFTER_TIME- Restores only the objects that were created after this time.
--created-before-time=CREATED_BEFORE_TIME- Restores only the objects that were created before this time.
--deleted-after-time=DELETED_AFTER_TIME- Restores only the objects that were soft-deleted after this time.
--deleted-before-time=DELETED_BEFORE_TIME- Restores only the objects that were soft-deleted before this time.
- PRECONDITION FLAGS
--if-generation-match=GENERATION- Execute only if the generation matches the generation of the requested object.
--if-metageneration-match=METAGENERATION- Execute only if the metageneration matches the metageneration of the requestedobject.
- GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
- These flags are available to all commands:
--access-token-file,--account,--billing-project,--configuration,--flags-file,--flatten,--format,--help,--impersonate-service-account,--log-http,--project,--quiet,--trace-token,--user-output-enabled,--verbosity.Run
$gcloud helpfor details. - NOTES
- This command is currently in alpha and might change without notice. If thiscommand fails with API permission errors despite specifying the correct project,you might be trying to access an API with an invitation-only early accessallowlist. This variant is also available:
gcloudstoragerestore
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Last updated 2026-01-21 UTC.