Percona Backup for MongoDB Documentation¶

Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is an open source and distributed solution for consistent backups and restore of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets. There is no notable performance nor operating degradation associated with PBM.

With Percona Backup for MongoDB, you can make backups on a running server and restore your database to a specific point in time using the command line. To do these tasks from a user interface, use PBM with Percona Monitoring and Management.

This is the documentation for the latest release, PBM 2.3.1 (Release Notes).

What you can do¶

Logical backups to back up and / or migrate data to different platforms and database versions
Physical backups to speed up performance for large (multi-terabyte) data sets
Selective backups to work with the desired data set
Incremental physical backups to ensure that critical data is regularly backed up and to save on costs for storage and transfer
Snapshot-based physical backups using the technology of your choice.
Restore the full database or specific data set from a backup
Restore the database to a specific point in time
Replay oplog on top of EBS-snapshots

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What’s in it for you?¶

Data consistency across clusters and replica sets
A variety of supported storage types means no vendor lock-in
Open source solution with enterprise-grade features

Install and get started

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Last update: December 4, 2023
Created: December 4, 2023