# Accidental delete

> An operator deleted data. A table was gone, and every query that needed it failed.

## What happens

An operator deleted data. A table was gone, and every query that needed it failed.

## How to prevent it

Point-in-time recovery restores the table to the minute before the delete. Restore drills prove the backup restores.

The postmortem opens the first of these that you do not own yet:

- [Point-in-time recovery](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research/pitr.md)
- [Restore drills](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research/restore-drills.md)

## Components it hits

[Database](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/components/database.md)

## Facts

SEV2 Accidental delete
- **First Era:** [Series B](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/eras/series-b.md)
- **Starts at:** SEV2
- **Escalates to:** SEVnull
- **Lasts:** 2 min

## See also

- [Incidents](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/incidents.md)

Source: https://wiki.playquorum.dev/incidents/accidental-delete