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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

Roll back a data privacy job

Roll back a data privacy job on your non-production instance that uses anonymized data from your production instance to a state prior to de-identification of a data class or user job.

Before you begin

Role required: data_privacy_admin or data_privacy_processor, and admin

Procedure

  1. Elevate to the data_privacy_processor or data_privacy_admin role.

    For details on role elevation, see Elevate to a privileged role.

  2. Navigate to All > System Security > Data Privacy > Data Privacy Job.

    Note: In advance, a data privacy policy configuration that supports rollback must be created. Create a data privacy policy.

  3. Create a data privacy job and select a Privacy Configuration that supports Rollback.

    See Configure a data privacy job.

  4. Schedule the job for data anonymization.

    • After the job has run, the data will be anonymized for the selected configuration.
    • A message displays in the job informing of the expiration time. Within the expiry period you have the ability to roll back the job.
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Data privacy job rollback expiration time message.
  1. Elevate to the data_privacy_processor role.

  2. Open the data privacy job to be rolled back.

  3. Select Rollback to de-anonymize the data.