Restore a previous version of a DriveItem

2025-07-23

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Restore a previous version of a DriveItem to be the current version. This will create a new version with the contents of the previous version, but preserves all existing versions of the file.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	Files.ReadWrite	Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Files.ReadWrite	Files.ReadWrite.All
Application	Files.ReadWrite.All	Sites.ReadWrite.All

Note

SharePoint Embedded requires the FileStorageContainer.Selected permission to access the content of the container. This permission is different from the ones mentioned previously. In addition to Microsoft Graph permissions, your app must have the necessary container type permissions to call this API. For more information, see SharePoint Embedded authentication and authorization.

HTTP request

POST /drives/{driveId}/items/{itemId}/versions/{version-id}/restoreVersion
POST /groups/{groupId}/drive/items/{itemId}/versions/{version-id}/restoreVersion
POST /me/drive/items/{item-id}/versions/{version-id}/restoreVersion
POST /sites/{siteId}/drive/items/{itemId}/versions/{version-id}/restoreVersion
POST /users/{userId}/drive/items/{itemId}/versions/{version-id}/restoreVersion

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

No request body is required.

Example

This example restores a version of a file identified by {item-id} and {version-id}.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}/versions/{version-id}/restoreVersion


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Drives["{drive-id}"].Items["{driveItem-id}"].Versions["{driveItemVersion-id}"].RestoreVersion.PostAsync();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Items().ByDriveItemId("driveItem-id").Versions().ByDriveItemVersionId("driveItemVersion-id").RestoreVersion().Post(context.Background(), nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

graphClient.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").items().byDriveItemId("{driveItem-id}").versions().byDriveItemVersionId("{driveItemVersion-id}").restoreVersion().post();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

await client.api('/drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}/versions/{version-id}/restoreVersion')
	.post();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$graphServiceClient->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->items()->byDriveItemId('driveItem-id')->versions()->byDriveItemVersionId('driveItemVersion-id')->restoreVersion()->post()->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Files

Restore-MgDriveItemVersion -DriveId $driveId -DriveItemId $driveItemId -DriveItemVersionId $driveItemVersionId

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

await graph_client.drives.by_drive_id('drive-id').items.by_drive_item_id('driveItem-id').versions.by_drive_item_version_id('driveItemVersion-id').restore_version.post()

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

If successful, the API call returns a 204 No Content.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

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