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# Point-in-time recovery
With point-in-time recovery, you can restore your database to any moment within the retention window. A restore always creates a new instance. Your current database is left untouched.
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You'll find Point-in-time recovery on the overview page for your database. Here you'll see the retention period, the earliest and latest restore point.
## Restore a database
Restoring a database does not overwrite your current database. Instead, a new database will be created from the point-in-time backup.
To restore a database, click **Restore** in the *Point-in-time recovery* overview.
Next, you can choose to recover from a predefined point in time, such as **Latest**, **1 hour ago**, or **Earliest**, or select your own specific time. In the example below, we've selected a specific time.
Select a **name** for the new instance, a **plan**, and the **data center**. You can keep the predefined values to recover to the current data center using the current plan. You can also upgrade the recovered database to a different plan, or recover to a different data center.
Once you're satisfied, click **Restore**.
A new database instance will now be created, containing the data from the specific point in time you selected. Since this is a new instance, it has a new hostname.
