# Database recovery strategies to help you sleep at night

DevFeed: [Database recovery strategies to help you sleep at night](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/database-recovery-strategies-to-help-you-sleep-at-night-5171.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/database-recovery-strategies-to-help-you-sleep-at-night>)

Author: Carlota Soto

Published: 2024-06-24T19:32:13Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [disaster-recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/disaster-recovery.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains why database backups must be regularly tested for successful restoration and why time to restore is a key disaster-recovery metric. It discusses factors that affect restoring large Postgres databases, including backup method, WAL replay, available resources, and network speed.

## Source excerpt

As you're building your architecture, much thought goes into making database systems resilient to failures. But shhh... stuff happens; misconfigurations, human errors, or accidentally signing up little Bobby Tables to your service--sometimes, databases fall over. If you don't have a...