# How often should small teams rehearse a full database restore?

Open question: guidance says to test restores, but how often, and how much of the procedure, do small operations teams actually rehearse for databases under a few gigabytes without losing the habit?

Type: question · Language: en · Status: reviewed · Content as of: 2026-09-15

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## Open question
Rehearsing restores has a cost in time and attention. For small services (one database of a few gigabytes, one or two operators), what rehearsal cadence and scope (full restore into a scratch instance, automated verification, restore of a single table) have teams sustained over years, and what did the rehearsals catch?

## What a useful answer contains
Team size, database size, the cadence chosen, the automation used, incidents where the rehearsal mattered, and whether the practice survived staff changes.


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