--- title: "Database Insurance" url: https://daily.dev/posts/database-insurance-il3nzekht source_url: https://dolthub.com/blog/2026-05-04-database-insurance type: article source: "DoltHub Blog" published: 2026-05-31T07:48:56.359Z updated: 2026-05-31T09:24:30.818Z tags: ["ai-agents", "version-control"] reading_time: 7 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: 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. # Database Insurance **[DoltHub Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/dolthub-blog)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Dolt and Doltgres can run as replicas to MySQL, MariaDB, or Postgres databases, turning every transaction commit into a versioned Dolt commit. This 'database insurance' approach is gaining urgency as AI coding agents increasingly cause production incidents — from outright database deletions to subtle bad writes. Unlike traditional backups, a Dolt replica provides a full commit history, diffs, branches, and surgical rollback tools (dolt_revert, dolt_patch) that let you precisely identify and undo agent-caused damage without restoring an entire backup. The recommended layering is: backups for disaster recovery, standard replication for availability, Dolt replication for history and surgical undo, and a Dolt remote as a last-resort off-host backup. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Version Controlled SQL Database Dolt Releases 2.0 with Automatic Storage Cleanup and Compression](https://daily.dev/posts/version-controlled-sql-database-dolt-releases-2-0-with-automatic-storage-cleanup-and-compression-wfaha9aol) · InfoQ · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [What People Are Saying: Better Stack Edition](https://daily.dev/posts/what-people-are-saying-better-stack-edition-e20vhxeem) · DoltHub Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [What People Are Saying: LWN Edition](https://daily.dev/posts/what-people-are-saying-lwn-edition-rqozyipga) · DoltHub Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#version-control](https://daily.dev/tags/version-control) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/database-insurance-il3nzekht)