Hi Fibery team! Here is a “food for thought” suggestion regarding data safety and UX. In Google Sheets, we have Version History, which allows us to instantly see and restore the state of the entire document at any specific point in time. Sometimes, a user (or an automation/script error) can accide…

Have you tried to make use of the workspace-level activity log?

:slightly_smiling_face: Yes, I’m familiar with the Activity Log, but it addresses a different scale of problem. Here is why the current system maybe isn’t enough for database management: The “Granularity” Issue: Activity Log allows for restoring items one by one. If a script or an accidental batc…

I think it is unlikely that we would implement a ‘time machine’ option for databases, since it would massively grow the amount of data that would need to be stored for each workspace. It would also have some serious technical challenges, e.g. if an entity in db 1 was linked to an entity in db 2 a c…

Thanks for the detailed and honest response!:+1: It makes total sense why a continuous “Time Machine” is a technical and storage nightmare for a relational system like Fibery. The scenarios you mentioned—broken relations with non-existent entities or “ghost” fields in formulas—perfectly illustrate …

I think this is the same/similar to this, right? [image] "Version history" of an entity Ideas & Features Version history in rich text is very useful. But in entity activity, it tells us what changed when, but you need to manually imagine these changes moving ba…

Yes, but instead of a “Time Machine” for every tiny change, we make “System-wide Restore Points” for the entire Workspace or specific Databases. :slightly_smiling_face:

"Time Machine" (Version History) for Databases

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I think this is the same/similar to this, right?

Topic		Replies	Views
Backup entire workspace? Ideas & Features	8	1561	March 25, 2026
See previous states of history, not only the changes made Ideas & Features history	14	72	October 1, 2026
Revert deleted relation Get Help	3	74	February 26, 2025
August 20, 2026 / Batch undo, create automations with AI, Views history Changelog	10	305	August 24, 2026
Workspace backup via the API Ideas & Features	3	70	September 16, 2026

"Time Machine" (Version History) for Databases

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