How to recover the PDI
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01-30-2024 03:17 AM
Hi team,
My PDI was lost even though I was using it regularly. There is no option under Request Instance as well.
Can someone guide me to get my instance as I have a lot of things in that instance?
Thanks!

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02-15-2024 11:55 PM
Hi @kumar22
Is it an old or a new PDI?
Not sure if you have seen this announcement by Servicenow, if your PDI belonged to old datacenter, it will be reclaimed and you will have to request for a new PDI.
For more details go through blog below:
https://www.servicenow.com/community/developer-blog/important-update-pdi-infrastructure-migration-ex...
I understand your frustation as well, I lost my PDI of 5 years.
As we know, PDIs are just a free service we are using, and Servicenow long back has mentioned the instance can be lost due to unavoidable circumstances so we need to take the backup of your instance regularly.
This is very inconvenient and unfortunate, but at this moment we can't do anything, all you can do is to request a new PDI and keep backups going forward. Refer to the link to how to backup your instance:
https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/backup-your-pdi/
Aman Kumar