Rollbacks

Rollbacks let you quickly revert a database or service to a known-good state after a failed deployment or data issue.

Database rollbacks

Database rollbacks use either backup restore or point-in-time recovery under the hood.

Restore to a backup

1. Navigate to your database's Backups tab
2. Select a backup from the list
3. Click Restore and confirm

Restore to a specific time

1. Navigate to your database's Backups tab
2. Click Point-in-Time Recovery
3. Select the target time and confirm

Service rollbacks

For services, rollback means restoring to a previous deployment image or volume snapshot.

Redeploy a previous image

1. Navigate to your service's Deployments tab
2. Find the previous deployment you want to roll back to
3. Click Redeploy to launch that image version again

This creates a new deployment with the old image. Environment variables and configuration use their current values.

Restore a volume snapshot

If your service uses persistent storage:

1. Navigate to the Backups tab
2. Select a volume snapshot
3. Click Restore and confirm

The service will restart with the restored volume.

Best practices

• Always take a snapshot or backup before risky operations
• Test rollback procedures periodically
• Keep notes on which deployment versions are known-good
• Use descriptive commit messages so you can identify good versions quickly