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# Restore Template Placeholders

This article describes the placeholders you can use in restore templates.

A placeholder in an EC2 template's **Naming** or an S3 template's **Prefix template** is filled in separately for each resource.
That's what lets one template give every restored resource its own name or prefix, for example `restored_{original_name}` for an instance or `restored/{original_name}/` for a bucket.
To create or edit a template, see [Manage Restore Templates].

## Placeholders

| Placeholder            | Replaced with                                                                      |
| ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `{original_name}`      | The resource's name in Eon, or its AWS resource ID when it has no name.            |
| `{original_id}`        | The resource's AWS resource ID.                                                    |
| `{restore_date}`       | The date of the restore, in UTC, as `YYYY-MM-DD`.                                  |
| `{restore_datetime}`   | The date and time of the restore, in UTC, as `YYYY-MM-DDTHH-MM-SSZ`.               |
| `{backup_date}`        | The date the snapshot was taken, in UTC, as `YYYY-MM-DD`.                          |
| `{account}`            | The name of the resource's source account, or its ID when it has no name.          |
| `{original_tag.<key>}` | The value of the resource's `<key>` tag, for example `{original_tag.Environment}`. |

If a placeholder has no value for a resource, such as a tag key the resource doesn't have, Eon can't fill in the template for that resource, and a restore from it doesn't start.
In a bulk restore, that resource's row fails validation, which blocks **Restore** for the whole batch.

[Manage Restore Templates]: /data-protection/restoring/restore-templates/manage-restore-templates