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Accidents Happen. What If Your Postgres Database Could Recover Instantly?

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Carlota Soto
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456
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42
Language
English
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Summary

We all have experienced the stress of a production database going down, resulting in high-stress situations with downtime. Traditional Postgres restores involve restoring from snapshots or backups and replaying WAL, a time-consuming process especially for large datasets. Neon's Instant Restore leverages its copy-on-write branching approach to make near-instant recovery possible by creating a new branch from the exact point in time before the failure and seamlessly redirecting the app to this restored branch in under a second. This approach allows for fast recovery even with multi-terabyte databases, making it a potential game-changer for database recovery mechanisms in services like Amazon RDS.

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