Deleted Data & DROP Recovery
Someone ran DELETE without a WHERE, dropped a table, or a bad UPDATE overwrote records. We restore the rows without rolling back everything else.
Signs you are here
- Rows or a whole table disappeared
- A migration or script updated the wrong records
- You need data back from a specific minute, not last night
Until someone has taken a copy, avoid restarts, repair commands, and restores over the original.
How we approach it
- Pin the moment Establish exactly when the bad statement ran from logs and audit trails.
- Restore beside production Recover a copy to that point in time on separate infrastructure — production keeps running.
- Merge the difference Extract only the lost rows and reconcile them with changes made since.
- Verify with you Spot-check counts and records with your team before anything is written back.
Questions
We only have nightly backups. Is that enough?
Often more is available than you think: transaction logs, replicas, snapshots, or application caches. We check every source.
Will you roll our whole database back?
Not unless that is the best option. The usual approach recovers the lost data alongside production and merges it back.
Engines we work with
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- SQL Server
- AWS RDS & Aurora
- Google Cloud SQL
- Azure SQL