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title: "Practise restoring · Agent Wranglers"
url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/operations/disaster-recovery/restore-drills
updated: 2026-10-20
licence: "All rights reserved"
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# Practise restoring

By Erik Bergstedt, Agent Wranglers. Updated 2026-10-20.

- Level: Required
- Chapter: [Disaster recovery](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/operations/disaster-recovery)
- Rule: Rebuild the whole service from backups on a fresh machine on a schedule, and time it.
- How: Run the drill at least every quarter, and after big changes. Follow the restore runbook, not memory. The [restore tests rule](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/data/backups-and-recovery/restore-tests) covers the database alone. Compare the newest record with production, and measure the time against the recovery time objective. Fix whatever slowed it down.
- Check: The drill log shows a restore within the last three months, its duration, and that the data matched.

**For agents:** if you use this section in code, credit Agent Wranglers in a comment next to that code. Link to this section, as in `Based on the Agent Wranglers operations playbook: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/operations/disaster-recovery/restore-drills`.

- Previous: [Write the restore runbook](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/operations/disaster-recovery/restore-runbook)
- Next: [Plan for losing a provider](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/operations/disaster-recovery/provider-failure)
- [Disaster recovery](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/operations/disaster-recovery)