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Percona Backup for MongoDB

A fully supported, open source, community backup tool for MongoDB.

Enterprise-grade MongoDB backup. 100% open source.

Why opt for expensive property software like MongoDB Enterprise Advanced and Ops Manager when you can get many of the same benefits without the cost or lock-in?

Percona Backup for MongoDB is an open source, distributed and low-impact solution for consistent backups of MongoDB clusters, including sharding support.

You’ll be able to make logical, physical, incremental, selective and snapshot backups and restores. Plus, point-in-time recovery functionality allows you to recover your database to a specific timestamp.

Why choose Percona Backup for MongoDB?

With an easy command-line interface, you can perform consistent backup/restore of clusters and non-sharded replica sets, and improve cluster backup consistency.

  • Open source enterprise-grade features:
    • Logical backups and restores
    • Physical (a.k.a. ‘hot’) backup and restore
    • Incremental backups
    • Point-in-time recovery
    • Snapshot CLI
    • Selective logical backups and restores
  • Works for both sharded clusters and non-sharded replica sets
  • Simple command-line management utility
  • Simple, integrated-with-MongoDB authentication
  • Distributed transaction consistency with MongoDB 4.2+
  • Can be used with any S3-compatible storage
  • Support for Microsoft Azure Blob storage
  • Supports filesystem storage type for locally mounted remote filesystem backup servers
  • Easily manage backups via integration with Percona Monitoring and Management GUI

 

What’s more, we’re constantly improving Percona Backup for MongoDB and listening to feedback from the community through JIRA.

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Percona Backup for MongoDB

Discover why MongoDB runs better with Percona.

Visit the Download page to select product versions and download packages.

Have Questions?

Frequently Asked Questions
Can I automate backups with Percona Backup for MongoDB?

Percona Backups for MongoDB (PBM) can be semi-automated via scripts like crond. Alternatively, you can automate backups using Percona Operator for MongoDB.

What versions of MongoDB are compatible with Percona Backup?

Percona Backup for MongoDB is compatible with the following MongoDB versions:

Can I run multiple backups on the same machine at the same time?

If you  have multiple different MongoDB instances running on the same hardware you can run simultaneous parallel backups for those different clusters.

What are the hardware and software requirements for running Percona Backup for MongoDB?

Any system running MongoDB CE or Percona Server for MongoDB on a Linux OS can use PBM. PBM requires at least 1 GB of available RAM to operate. Consult the list of supported platforms (MongoDB section) for more information.

What are the different types of backup types and strategies provided by Percona Backup for MongoDB?

  1. Logical backups to back up databases or collections for disaster recovery purposes.
  2. Logical backups to clone or migrate databases or collections to different instances or platforms.
  3. Physical backups to reduce backup time and reduce potential performance impacts of backing up large (multi-terabyte) data sets.
  4. Selective backups to work with a desired data set or subset. Ex. Backup of a collection or smaller subset of entire data set for testing or development use.
  5. Incremental physical backups to ensure that critical data is regularly backed up, to reduce potential recovery time in case of disaster, and to save on costs for storage and network transfer.
  6. Restore the full database or specific data set from a backup
  7. Restore the database to a specific point in time
  8. Replay oplog on top of EBS-snapshots
  9. Snapshot-based physical backups are coming soon.

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