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Rollback & recovery hardening

For teams that want to ship database changes faster — we audit your backup, PITR, and rollback story and harden the gaps.

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At a glance

Output
Validated runbook + tested restore
Duration
3–5 business days
Starts at
$99.00
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30-day money-back guarantee
The problem

Most teams have backups. Few have backups they've actually restored. The day you find out yours is missing the last 4 hours, or won't replay because of a missing extension, is a very bad day.

Our approach

We restore your backup. Onto a fresh cluster. End to end. Then we write the runbook you can hand to oncall, with stated RTO / RPO targets and the failure modes most likely to bite you.

What's included

Everything in scope, named.

Concrete deliverables — no vague promises about "best practices".

01

Backup + PITR validation (we restore it on a test cluster)

02

Migration rollback patterns + tooling

03

Disaster recovery runbook with RTO / RPO targets

04

On-call playbook for the most likely failure modes

How it unfolds

A clear runbook, not a black box.

  1. 01

    Audit

    Backup cadence, retention, encryption, and PITR configuration are reviewed against your stated RPO.

  2. 02

    Restore

    We do a real restore on a fresh cluster — including PITR replay to a chosen second.

  3. 03

    Patterns

    Migration rollback patterns: shadow tables, blue-green, expand/contract — picked for your stack.

  4. 04

    Runbook

    Disaster recovery + migration rollback runbook with stated RTO / RPO and on-call decision tree.

Tools we reach for

Battle-tested, not shiny.

The tools we trust on real production workloads — that's what we'll be using on yours.

pg_basebackup / WAL-G mysqldump + binlog replay barman / pgBackRest expand-contract migrations

Best for

  • ✓ Teams that want to ship schema changes weekly without stress
  • ✓ Pre-audit / pre-SOC2 evidence of working backups
  • ✓ Engineering teams adopting blue-green deploys at the data layer

Not the right fit when

  • ✕ Active incident response — call us via contact for that
Plans

Pick a plan that includes this service.

All plans ship with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Quick Audit

Spot the bottleneck fast

$9.99 one-time
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Index Optimization

Faster reads, leaner writes

$13.00 one-time
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Migration Standard

Move it, cleanly

$98.00 one-time
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Service 01

Performance audit

A focused read of your slow-query log, EXPLAIN plans, and missing indexes — turned into a punch list of the highest-impact fixes.

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Service 02

Index & query optimization

We rebuild your index strategy on a staging copy, rewrite the worst offenders, and verify with before/after benchmarks.

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Service 03

Database migration

Single-engine upgrades or full cross-engine migrations using pgloader, AWS DMS, or custom ETL pipelines — with a verified cutover.

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Ready to start your rollback & recovery hardening?

Pick a plan that fits, or send us a paragraph about what's slow — we'll come back within an hour.

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