# Behaviour after restoring server snapshot?

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/behaviour-after-restoring-server-snapshot/45022>\
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**Created:** [23 April 2025 21:28 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/behaviour-after-restoring-server-snapshot/45022 "2025-04-23T21:28:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![laurent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@laurent](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/laurent)\
**Post date:** [23 April 2025 21:34 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/behaviour-after-restoring-server-snapshot/45022/2 "2025-04-23T21:34:30Z")

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I think nothing will happen since the notes on your app are newer than those on the server, so it will just ignore what's on the server.

But you should consider sync broken at this point and the best would be fix it as described here, most likely by deleting everything and resuming from a JEX backup:

> [@How to fix synchronisation issues and start over](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-fix-synchronisation-issues/44410):
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> If your app is not synchronising properly or something got corrupted and you want to start over, follow this guide. First, make a backup In all cases, the most reliable way to fix synchronisation is to start from a recent JEX backup of your notes. Having such backup also ensure you don't lose anything while you're trying to fix synchronisation. If one of your applications is in a good state and has all the data, you can create this JEX backup file from File =\> Export all =\> JEX Otherwise, you…

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