DURABILITY / RECOVER AND RESTORE

Understand logging, diagnostics, and restore

Choose a WAL policy, capture storage diagnostics, or restore a backup generation. The recovery guide covers the public APIs available for specialized inspection and recovery tools.

01 / LOG RECENT WRITES

WAL modes

Choose a logging path, understand compressed tails, and close the tree cleanly. AsyncCompressed is the default.

Understand the default WAL

02 / INSPECT AND RECOVER

Recovery

Capture checksum and reader errors, integrate logging, and reuse public WAL and segment APIs in specialized tools.

Inspect WAL diagnostics

03 / RESTORE A GENERATION

Backups

Run a complete backup and restore example, then add memory capture policy, scheduling, and retention.

Create a verified backup

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