--- title: Time Travel with Serverless Postgres | daily.dev description: Neon's database branching feature allows creating copy-on-write clones of a Postgres database at any point in time, enabling fast disaster recovery. Branches... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/time-travel-with-serverless-postgres-h0gzubb9x twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Time Travel with Serverless Postgres | daily.dev og:description: Neon's database branching feature allows creating copy-on-write clones of a Postgres database at any point in time, enabling fast disaster recovery. Branches... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/time-travel-with-serverless-postgres-h0gzubb9x og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/h0gZuBb9x.png og:image:alt: Time Travel with Serverless Postgres 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. # Time Travel with Serverless Postgres **[Neon](https://daily.dev/sources/neontech)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Neon's database branching feature allows creating copy-on-write clones of a Postgres database at any point in time, enabling fast disaster recovery. Branches can be created from the console or API using a timestamp or a specific LSN (Log Sequence Number). For precise rollback when the exact time of data loss is unknown, a binary search algorithm can be applied across a sequence of LSN-based branches to pinpoint the exact moment data corruption occurred. A Python script example demonstrates automating this process using Neon's API. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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