Backup and Restore Cluster Data¶

Considerations¶

Be aware that:

• Atlas backups are not available for M0 free clusters. You may use mongodump to back up your M0 cluster data and mongorestore to restore that data. To learn how to manually back up your data, see Command Line Tools.
• You must restore the backup to a cluster running either the same major release version, or the next higher one. Atlas doesn't support restoring to older versions.You can still use backups made before an upgrade.
  Example

  To restore a 3.6 cluster to 4.0:

  1. Restore the old 3.6 backup to another 3.6 cluster.
  2. Upgrade the restored cluster to 4.0.

Cloud Backups¶

Available in M10+ Clusters.

Atlas uses the native snapshot capabilities of your cloud provider to support full-copy snapshots and localized snapshot storage.

Atlas supports Cloud Backups on:

• Microsoft Azure
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Google GCP

To learn more, see Cloud Backups.

To learn how to restore cluster from a Cloud Backup, see Restore a Cluster from a Cloud Backup.

Legacy Backups¶

Available in M10+ Clusters.

Atlas uses incremental snapshots to continuously back up your data. Continuous backup snapshots are typically just a few seconds behind the operational system.

Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters.

For each Atlas project with legacy backups enabled, Atlas stores the legacy backup snapshots in the backup data center location where legacy backups were first enabled for a cluster in the project.

Continuous snapshots support restoring from the full snapshot or from a Continuous Cloud Backup between snapshots. You can also query a continuous snapshot.

With Atlas legacy backup, the total number of collections across all databases in a Atlas cluster can't be equal to or exceed 100,000.

To learn more about Legacy Backups, see Legacy Backups.

To learn how to restore cluster from a Legacy Backup, see Restore a Cluster from a Legacy Backup Snapshot.

M2 / M5 Snapshots¶

Backups are automatically enabled for M2 and M5 shared clusters and can't be disabled. Atlas takes daily snapshots of your M2 and M5 clusters which you can restore to clusters tiers M2 or greater.

To learn more about M2 / M5 daily snapshots, see Shared Cluster Backups.

To learn how to restore a cluster from an M2 / M5 snapshot, see Restore a Cluster from an M2/M5 Snapshot.

Serverless Instance Snapshots¶

Atlas uses the native snapshot capabilities of your cloud provider to support full-copy snapshots and localized snapshot storage.

Backups are automatically enabled for serverless instances. You can't disable serverless instance backups.

Atlas takes snapshots of your serverless instances every six hours. You can restore serverless instance snapshots to other serverless instances and dedicated clusters.

To learn more, see:

• Serverless Instance Backups
• Restore a Serverless Instance from a Snapshot