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Database backups and restores for AI-built websites

Your databases are backed up every night. Take your own backup before a big change and restore a database yourself.

5 min · Intermediate

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What is backed up

Every package of hosting for AI-built websites includes database backups at no extra cost. Each PostgreSQL database is backed up every night, and a week of backups is kept. Your sites' code stays in GitHub, so a site can be published again at any time.

Take your own backup

  1. Open your service's Backups in the dashboard.
  2. Under the database, select Your own backup → Take a backup. If you already have one, select Take a new backup: the new one replaces the current one.
  3. Wait until the backup is ready. Your sites keep working the whole time.

Take your own backup before a big change, such as updating the database's structure, so you can go back to it if needed.

Restore a database

A restore replaces the whole database with the backup's contents, so data saved after the backup is replaced. Only the database you choose is restored.

  1. Choose the backup to restore, a nightly one or your own, and select Restore.
  2. Type RESTORE to confirm and select Restore backup.
  3. Your sites lose their connection to the database for a moment and then reconnect. Then check that your sites' data looks right.

Undo a restore

Before every restore, a copy of the database is taken and kept for a week. You'll find it under Copies taken before a restore. If the restore wasn't the right one, restore that copy the same way.