Table data lost after project restore from paused state (Free Tier)

[gautamxgambhir]

Table data lost after project restore from paused state (Free Tier)

Hey everyone 👋

I had my Supabase project on the free tier, and it was automatically paused due to inactivity.
After I restored the project, I noticed that one of my database tables is now completely empty, even though it previously had data.

Has anyone faced this before?

• Does Supabase wipe data from paused projects?
• Is there any way to recover table data (e.g. from a backup or snapshot)?
• Or should I contact Supabase support directly for recovery?

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Project info:

• Free-tier Supabase project
• One table missing data after restore
• Everything else (schema, tables, auth, etc.) seems intact

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Any guidance or confirmation would really help 🙏
Just want to know if recovery is possible or if I’ll need to rebuild the table manually.

Thanks in advance!

[GaryAustin1]

Supabase/postgres would not delete or lose a single table or data during that process. Not clear what went wrong.
If you go to Pro for a minimum of a month $25, all users who have done it say there are 7 days of backups there.

My guess though is at some point you or your AI deleted the table, so you would have to depend on one of those backups being before that point.

[LoordhuJeyakumar]

Hit something similar a while back a restore that looked fine but wasn't, and no way to know until it actually mattered. I'm building a small tool that backs up Supabase projects and then actually restores them on a schedule to prove the backup is good, instead of just assuming a scheduled backup means you're safe. Still early. If that's something you'd want to try once it's ready, happy to add you to an early access list no pitch, just trying to figure out if this is worth building for people who've actually hit this.

[TheNeelOfficial]

Same happened to me yesterday