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What If Your Postgres Database Could Recover Instantly? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Accidents Happen. What If Your Postgres Database Could Recover Instantly? **[Neon](https://daily.dev/sources/neontech)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Neon's Instant Restore feature enables near-instant Postgres database recovery by leveraging copy-on-write branching instead of traditional backup-and-WAL-replay methods. Rather than taking hours to restore even large databases, Neon creates a new branch from the exact point in time before a failure, redirecting the app in under a second. An interactive Outage Simulator demo lets users experience this on a 1 TB database, demonstrating that recovery time doesn't scale with data size — even a 100 TB database would recover just as quickly. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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