In plain English
This means opening an earlier saved copy of a document so its contents can be brought back. The backup copy is used when the current document is lost, damaged, or otherwise unusable.
In context
Here, the expression labels the recovery action to open a saved backup copy of the document so its contents can be recovered when the current copy is lost, damaged, or unusable.
- Situation
- Creating, saving, sharing, versioning, and restoring files
- What it communicates
- labels the recovery action for opening a backup version.
Meaning limits
The term itself does not say whether the contents will be fully restored, only that a saved backup copy is opened for recovery use.
Examples
“When the contract file was corrupted, she opened a backup to recover the text.”
“If the current draft is unreadable, open the backup and copy the missing pages into a new document.”