Restore a Turso database to a point in time (PITR) after bad data or a bad migration
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Documented steps
Determine the target timestamp in ISO 8601 UTC, e.g. 2026-07-30T14:05:00Z, and confirm it falls inside your plan's retention window (https://docs.turso.tech/features/point-in-time-recovery).
Restore into a NEW database: `turso db create my-db-restored --from-db my-db --timestamp 2026-07-30T14:05:00Z`.
Platform API equivalent: POST /v1/organizations/{organizationSlug}/databases with {"name":"my-db-restored","group":"default","seed":{"type":"database","name":"my-db","timestamp":"2026-07-30T14:05:00Z"}}.
Mint a token for the restored database and verify the data is at the expected state BEFORE cutting over.
Cut over by updating the application's connection URL and auth token to the restored database.
Only after verification, destroy the damaged database with `turso db destroy my-db` — restoring never modifies or replaces the original.
If the name matters, restore, verify, destroy the original, then create a further branch under the original name from the restored copy.
Known gotchas
Retention is plan-dependent: roughly 24 hours on Free, 10 days Developer, 30 days Scaler, 90 days Pro. On Free, a Friday-night incident found on Monday is unrecoverable.
Backups are taken at COMMIT with periodic checkpointing, and the docs warn of a gap of up to 15 seconds in the data immediately before your timestamp — do not assume second-level precision.
Restore creates a new database with a NEW hostname and requires a new token (or a group token) — plan the connection-string change as part of the runbook.
The restored database counts against your database and storage quotas.
Timestamps must be ISO 8601; local-time or epoch values are rejected.
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