Database backups
Short guide to backups, retention, and restore.
Last updated: 2026-03-17
This page is a short summary of backups. Full details are in:
What you can do
- Trigger manual backups
- Restore from a snapshot
- Rotate admin credentials
Backup strategy baseline
- Daily automatic backups for production clusters.
- Manual backup before schema migrations.
- Keep at least one recent restore point outside deploy windows.
Retention
Retention depends on your plan. Check Plan limits in billing.
Restore checklist
- Confirm snapshot engine/version matches target cluster.
- Estimate restoration window and notify team.
- Restore in staging first for high-risk changes.
- Validate app connectivity and data integrity after restore.
- Rotate credentials if incident-driven restore happened.
Troubleshooting
Restore fails
- Confirm the snapshot exists and matches the engine.
- Check cluster state and available storage before retry.