# Three Ways to Use Your Snapshots

DevFeed: [Three Ways to Use Your Snapshots](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/three-ways-to-use-your-snapshots-5830.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/three-ways-to-use-your-snapshots>)

Author: Carlota Soto

Published: 2025-11-11T00:54:40Z

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: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [backup](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backup.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/recovery.md>), [retention](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retention.md>), [snapshots](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/snapshots.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

## AI overview

Neon's article explains how to use database snapshots, including automatic daily, weekly, and monthly scheduling, point-in-time preservation, instant restoration, production migration safety, and archival beyond a branch's retention period.

## Source excerpt

Neon's snapshots feature is now available to all users (in Beta), and you can finally schedule them automatically. You can make snapshots daily, weekly, or monthly from the Backup & Restore page in the Neon Console. Snapshots are built on Neon's copy-on-write architecture: they c...