Initial setup overview

The following diagram outlines the installation and setup steps:

After you installed Percona Backup for MongoDB on every server with the mongod node that is not an arbiter node, complete the following setup steps:

1. Configure authentication in MongoDB.

2. Configure the remote backup storage.

3. Start pbm-agent process.

Next steps

Configure authentication

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Last update: October 7, 2025
Created: October 7, 2025