diff --git a/config/dev.exs b/config/dev.exs
index 9abd0579..6e28eda5 100644
--- a/config/dev.exs
+++ b/config/dev.exs
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ config :microwaveprop, Microwaveprop.Repo,
   username: "postgres",
   password: "postgres",
   hostname: "localhost",
-  database: "microwaveprop_dev",
+  database: "prop_dev",
   stacktrace: true,
   show_sensitive_data_on_connection_error: true,
   pool_size: 30
diff --git a/docs/plans/2026-04-13-rdps-vertical-profiles.md b/docs/plans/2026-04-13-rdps-vertical-profiles.md
index 2003b71d..0fdb25eb 100644
--- a/docs/plans/2026-04-13-rdps-vertical-profiles.md
+++ b/docs/plans/2026-04-13-rdps-vertical-profiles.md
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ Copy shape from `lib/microwaveprop/weather/hrrr_profile.ex`, strip anything RDPS
 
 ```bash
 mix ecto.migrate
-psql -h localhost -d microwaveprop_dev -c "\d rdps_profiles"
+psql -h localhost -d prop_dev -c "\d rdps_profiles"
 ```
 
 **Step 2.5: Run schema test, verify PASS**
diff --git a/scripts/restore_prod_to_local.sh b/scripts/restore_prod_to_local.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..36210f43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/restore_prod_to_local.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Pull the latest production Postgres dump off the DB server and restore
+# it into the local `prop_dev` database, replacing whatever is there.
+#
+# The production server runs scripts/backup_prop_db.sh on a daily cron,
+# which writes pg_dump custom-format dumps to /backups/prop/ as
+# `prop_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.dump`. We SSH in, pick the newest one, scp it
+# locally, then drop/recreate prop_dev and restore into it.
+#
+# Usage:
+#
+#   scripts/restore_prod_to_local.sh
+#   REMOTE_HOST=my-db-host REMOTE_USER=graham scripts/restore_prod_to_local.sh
+#
+# Before running: stop `mix phx.server` so Ecto doesn't hold connections.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+REMOTE_HOST="${REMOTE_HOST:-db-prop}"
+REMOTE_USER="${REMOTE_USER:-$USER}"
+REMOTE_BACKUP_DIR="${REMOTE_BACKUP_DIR:-/backups/prop}"
+LOCAL_DB="${LOCAL_DB:-prop_dev}"
+LOCAL_USER="${LOCAL_USER:-postgres}"
+LOCAL_HOST="${LOCAL_HOST:-localhost}"
+LOCAL_TMP="${LOCAL_TMP:-/tmp}"
+
+ssh_target="${REMOTE_USER}@${REMOTE_HOST}"
+
+log() {
+    printf '%s restore_prod_to_local: %s\n' "$(date -u +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')" "$*"
+}
+
+die() {
+    log "ERROR: $*"
+    exit 1
+}
+
+command -v ssh >/dev/null || die "ssh not on PATH"
+command -v scp >/dev/null || die "scp not on PATH"
+command -v pg_restore >/dev/null || die "pg_restore not on PATH (install postgresql client tools)"
+command -v psql >/dev/null || die "psql not on PATH"
+
+log "looking up latest dump on ${ssh_target}:${REMOTE_BACKUP_DIR}"
+remote_file=$(ssh "$ssh_target" "ls -1t ${REMOTE_BACKUP_DIR}/prop_*.dump 2>/dev/null | head -n1")
+[[ -n "$remote_file" ]] || die "no prop_*.dump files found in ${REMOTE_BACKUP_DIR} on ${REMOTE_HOST}"
+
+filename=$(basename "$remote_file")
+local_file="${LOCAL_TMP}/${filename}"
+log "latest dump: ${remote_file}"
+
+# Always remove the downloaded dump, even on mid-run failure. Saves disk
+# on laptops where dumps are multi-GB.
+cleanup() {
+    [[ -n "${local_file:-}" && -f "$local_file" ]] && rm -f "$local_file"
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+log "downloading to ${local_file}"
+scp "${ssh_target}:${remote_file}" "$local_file"
+
+# Kick any existing connections off the DB before dropping it — otherwise
+# `DROP DATABASE` fails with "is being accessed by other users". This is
+# aggressive, but it's a dev box and the user was told to stop the server.
+log "terminating existing connections to ${LOCAL_DB}"
+psql -h "$LOCAL_HOST" -U "$LOCAL_USER" -d postgres -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 <<SQL >/dev/null
+SELECT pg_terminate_backend(pid)
+FROM pg_stat_activity
+WHERE datname = '${LOCAL_DB}' AND pid <> pg_backend_pid();
+SQL
+
+log "dropping and recreating ${LOCAL_DB}"
+psql -h "$LOCAL_HOST" -U "$LOCAL_USER" -d postgres -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 <<SQL >/dev/null
+DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS ${LOCAL_DB};
+CREATE DATABASE ${LOCAL_DB} OWNER ${LOCAL_USER};
+SQL
+
+# --no-owner / --no-acl so ownership in the prod dump doesn't cause role
+# errors locally. -j 4 parallelises table data restore.
+log "restoring dump into ${LOCAL_DB}"
+pg_restore \
+    -h "$LOCAL_HOST" \
+    -U "$LOCAL_USER" \
+    -d "$LOCAL_DB" \
+    --no-owner \
+    --no-acl \
+    -j 4 \
+    "$local_file"
+
+log "done — ${LOCAL_DB} is a copy of prod as of $(basename "$filename" .dump)"