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The backup that wasn't there

At 4pm a bad script deletes your orders table. You open the backups page expecting to undo it.

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How much data can daily backups lose?

Up to a full day. A daily backup restores the database as it was when the backup ran, so everything written since is lost. can restore to any minute by replaying the database log. Whatever you use, test a restore before you need it.

Trail of the bug
  1. Database
  2. File storage

Breaks at File storage: Newest backup is from midnight

How it works

What you get back after a 4pm mistakePoint-in-time recovery
Backup 00:00Mistake 16:0024:00

Data lost: 16 hours

A daily backup restores midnight. Everything written between midnight and 4pm, sixteen hours of orders, is gone.

Why AI tools write this bug

AI builders set up a working app, not a recovery plan. Backups are a hosting setting that never appears in the code, so nobody checks them until something is deleted.

How to fix it

  1. Decide how much recent data the business can afford to lose.

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Common questions

Is a successful backup job proof that I can restore?
No. It proves a file was created. Only restoring it shows the data you need is inside.

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Data you can lose: Agents that reset production, backups that are a day old, rollbacks that break.

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  1. Decide how much recent data the business can afford to lose.

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