Hi there, Sebastian here, I hope you are doing well.
You mentioned that your backup restore did not bring back any of the recipes you have saved for years, and that you are now worried you will have to retype them all. It is completely understandable to feel frustrated when important content like long collected recipes seems to be missing after a restore, especially if you have relied on backups to keep your site safe.
To confirm, Jetpack VaultPress Backup allows you to restore your site to a specific point in time or even restore specific files or database tables, which can sometimes help recover content that does not appear after a general restore if it exists in an earlier backup snapshot. If you haven’t already, try locating an older backup in your Activity Log or Backup page to see if there is a restore point from before the recipes disappeared, then use the one-click restore from that point. You can see more details on ho to do this here: https://jetpack.com/support/backup/restoring-with-jetpack-backup/
If this does not work, please <span style=”box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;”>contact us directly via the contact form at https://jetpack.com/contact-support/ and include a link to this thread so our support team has context</span>. When you contact us, please include your site URL and the approximate date you last saw the recipes on your site, so they can check the closest backups from that date.
I hope this is helpful. Please keep us posted on how things progress.
Warm regards,