The Scenario
Your lead developer went on leave Friday afternoon. On the way out she mentioned — only in conversation, not in writing — that four client staging databases need to be rebuilt from specific backups before Monday. The backup IDs are in an Excel workbook. Doing this through the Prisma console means four separate restore flows, four confirmation screens to watch, and a real chance of pasting a new database ID into the wrong client row.
You have not done a Prisma restore before. The documentation requires a developer-level familiarity with the console that you do not have time to build this weekend.
The bad version:
- Open the Prisma console, find the restore option, search for the first backup ID
- Fill in the target database name, select the project, click restore, wait for provisioning
- Copy the new database ID from the results screen, switch back to Excel, paste into the right row
- Repeat for backups two, three, and four — and realize partway through that you have lost track of which row maps to which backup ID
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads your table data, and through its Prisma integration it can restore backups from the IDs in your rows and write the returned database details back into the correct cells automatically.
With backup IDs in column A and target names in column B, try:
For each backup ID in column A and target name in column B, restore the Prisma backup to a new database and write the new database ID into column C
What You Get
- One new database provisioned per row from the specified backup ID
- New database IDs written into column C, row-matched to the backup that created them
- Rows that fail get an error note in column C rather than a silent gap
- Rows already populated in column C are skipped to prevent duplicate restores
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
I want full connection strings back, not just database IDs
Use the backup IDs listed in this Excel sheet to restore 3 staging databases in my Prisma project and fill in the returned database connection strings in column D
I want restores to go to a specific region rather than the default
For each backup ID in column A and region in column B, restore the Prisma backup to a new database in that region and write the new database ID into column C
I want to verify the restored database reaches a ready state before writing the ID
Restore each backup ID from column A to a new database named from column B, wait for ready status, write the database ID into column C and the status confirmation into column D
Restore all backups, capture IDs and connection strings, and flag any failures in one shot
For each backup ID in column A, restore the Prisma backup using the target name in column B, write the new database ID into column C and the connection string into column D — if any restore fails, write the specific error into column E
The pattern: drive the entire restore batch from the workbook and write all results back in the correct rows so the Excel table is the authoritative record of what was provisioned.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook where you track staging environments or backup recovery tasks, then ask it to restore the backups from your rows and capture the new database details automatically. See also the spoke on exporting the backup inventory or the hub overview.