--- layout: docs page_title: recover - Command description: |- Use the recover command to pull data from a loaded snapshot and restore it at the specified path. --- > [!IMPORTANT] > **Documentation Update:** Product documentation, which were located in this repository under `/website`, are now located in [`hashicorp/web-unified-docs`](https://github.com/hashicorp/web-unified-docs), colocated with all other product documentation. Contributions to this content should be done in the `web-unified-docs` repo, and not this one. Changes made to `/website` content in this repo will not be reflected on the developer.hashicorp.com website. # recover @include 'alerts/enterprise-only.mdx' The `recover` command pulls data at the specified path from a loaded snapshot and restores it to the cluster, overwriting newer data on the same path. @include 'recover/deletedmounts.mdx' ## Examples Recover the KV version 1 secret at the path `my-secret` from the loaded snapshot with ID `2403d301-94f2-46a1-a39d-02be83e2831a`: ```shell-session $ vault recover -snapshot-id=2403d301-94f2-46a1-a39d-02be83e2831a secret/my-secret ``` ## Usage The following flag is available in addition to the [standard set of flags](/vault/docs/commands) included on all commands. ### Command options - `snapshot-id` `(string: "")` - Specifies a loaded snapshot ID to recover the data from.