Ride the database host

Backups & DR

There is no second backup vendor on the invoice. Persistence and PITR arrive with DATABASE_URL.

Memory mode has nothing to snapshot; a restart is a clean demo. That is what you want in a pitch. When you set DATABASE_URL to Neon or Supabase, point-in-time recovery is a checkbox on that host — not a new product to buy.

Mode	RPO	RTO
Demo / memory	n/a	n/a
Neon DATABASE_URL	seconds (PITR)	minutes — restore a branch
Supabase DATABASE_URL	PITR on paid; daily on free	minutes — dashboard restore
Generic Postgres	host PITR or pg_dump via BACKUP_PROVIDER	hours unless the host has PITR

backend/shared/golive/backups.ts

getBackupPolicy() inspects DATABASE_URL
neon.tech  → host-pitr
supabase   → host-pitr
else       → BACKUP_PROVIDER or pg_dump