# Announcing Neon Snapshots: A Smoother Path to Recovery

DevFeed: [Announcing Neon Snapshots: A Smoother Path to Recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/announcing-neon-snapshots-a-smoother-path-to-recovery-4965.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/announcing-neon-snapshots-a-smoother-path-to-recovery>)

Author: Bryan Clark

Published: 2025-04-23T15:50:07Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/releases.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debugging.md>)

Tags: [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debugging.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>)

## AI overview

Neon announces Early Access snapshots: point-in-time copies of database data and schema that can be restored into a new branch for isolated recovery, testing, and debugging.

## Source excerpt

When working with databases, there are moments when you'd love to freeze time -- before making a big change, running a migration, or simply bookmarking a stable state. With snapshots in Neon, that's now possible. Snapshots provide an easy way to capture a backup of your database a...