Salesforce Data Export restoration and System ModStamp preservation
20.5K reputation · 03 Apr 2025, 15:35 UTC
The Salesforce Weekly Data Export service provides record-level backups in CSV format, which are typically restored using the Data Loader or Bulk API. While this process recovers object data, the restoration involves creating new records or updating existing ones via API calls.
A specific challenge arises when attempting to maintain the original audit trail of the data. During the import process, system-controlled fields such as CreatedDate and SystemModStamp are typically overwritten by the date and time of the restoration activity rather than the original values from the export file.
Given the constraints of the standard API, what are the documented methods for preserving original system timestamps during a data restoration? Is there a specific permission set or API configuration that allows these read-only fields to be populated from a CSV source?