Create a manual backup
backups & data
// what it does
Takes an on-demand backup of a branch's schema and data, on top of the automatic daily ones. The reflex before anything scary: a big deploy request, a bulk delete, a data backfill. --name it after the reason.
// shell
$ pscale backup create mydb main --name pre-users-migration// gotcha
Backups belong to a branch, not the database — back up the branch you're about to endanger. Production branches get automatic daily backups; dev branches get only a short-retention daily, so manual backups matter more there.