I had to restore a rails app from a day old backup once. I actually manage to bring last day data as well by parsing POST/PUT/PATCH lines in rails log. This is

I had to restore a rails app from a day old backup once. I actually manage to bring last day data as well by parsing POST/PUT/PATCH lines in rails log. This is painful, and you have to keep track of new ids for relations, but it "works" (obviously, there is info you can't retrieve that way, but in those situations, anything more than nothing is good).