Download Percona Backup for MongoDB from Percona website¶

You can download Percona Backup for MongoDB from Percona website and install it:

From binary tarballs.
Manually, from the installation packages using dpkg (Debian and Ubuntu) or rpm (Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS). However, you must make sure that all dependencies are satisfied.

What nodes to install on¶

`pbm-agent`¶

Install pbm-agent on all servers that have mongod nodes in the MongoDB cluster (or non-sharded replica set). You don’t need to start it on the arbiter node, since it doesn’t have the data set.

`pbm` CLI¶

You can install pbm CLI on any or all servers or desktop computers you wish to use it from. Those computers must not be network-blocked from accessing the MongoDB cluster.

Before you start¶

Check the system requirements and supported MongoDB versions.

Install from binary tarballs¶

Find the link to the binary tarballs under the Generic Linux menu item on Percona website .

Fetch the binary tarball. Replace the version in the URL with your required version.

$ wget https://downloads.percona.com/downloads/percona-backup-mongodb/percona-backup-mongodb-2.9.1/binary/tarball/percona-backup-mongodb-2.9.1-x86_64.tar.gz

Extract the tarball

$ tar -xf percona-backup-mongodb-2.9.1-x86_64.tar.gz

Export the location of the binaries to the PATH variable

For example, if you’ve extracted the tarball to your home directory, the command would be the following:
```
$ export PATH=~/percona-backup-mongodb-2.9.1/:$PATH
```

After the installation completes, you have the following tools:

Tool	Purpose
`pbm`	Command-line interface for controlling the backup system
`pbm-agent`	An agent for running backup/restore actions on a database host
`pbm-speed-test`	An interface for field-testing compression and backup upload speed
`pbm-agent-entrypoint`	An entry point application that allows starting `pbm-agent` and also restarts it in case of any faults

Next steps¶

Initial setup

Last update: April 11, 2025
Created: April 11, 2025