Backups and Point-in-Time Recovery
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Automated daily snapshots plus continuous transaction log backup enable restoring to any specific second.
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Key points
- •Automated backups = daily snapshot + continuous transaction logs, enabling restore to any second within the retention window
- •Retention window is 1-35 days, configurable based on recovery point objective
- •A restore always creates a new instance — never overwrites the existing one in place
- •Manual snapshots persist indefinitely, useful as an explicit checkpoint before risky operations