Pause and Resume Archiving
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Serverless instances are in preview and do not support this feature at this time. To learn more, see Serverless Instance Limitations.
You can pause and resume archiving from the Atlas UI and API. When you pause, previously archived documents continue to be available on the cloud object storage for querying, but archiving activity for the collection on your Atlas cluster is stopped until you resume archiving. Also, Atlas pauses data expiration until you resume. You will continue to incur costs for storage on the cloud object storage and for reading data. When you resume archiving, data that meets the criteria for archiving is archived and archived data that meets the deletion age limit is deleted.
You can pause an online archive and create another online archive for
the same namespace and partition fields as the paused online archive,
but only one online archive can be Active. If you try to resume
a paused online archive when another online archive for the same
namespace is Active, the resume operation will fail. You must
either delete or pause the Active online archive to resume
archiving for the paused online archive.
Pause Archiving Through the UI
To pause archiving, in your Atlas UI:
Navigate to the Database Deployments page for your project.
- If it is not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
- If it is not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
- If the Database Deployments page is not already displayed, click Databases in the sidebar.
Navigate to the Online Archive tab for your cluster.
- Click the name of the cluster.
- Click the Online Archive tab to view the list of online archives, if any, for the cluster.
Click the ellipsis (...) in the Actions column for the online archive to display the list of allowed actions.
You can:
- Pause Archiving (only if state is Active)
- Edit Archive
- Delete Archive
- Resume Archiving (only if state is Paused)
Select Pause Archiving from the ellipsis menu to temporarily stop archiving data in the collection.
Resume Archiving Through the UI
To resume archiving, in your Atlas UI:
Navigate to the Database Deployments page for your project.
- If it is not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
- If it is not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
- If the Database Deployments page is not already displayed, click Databases in the sidebar.
Navigate to the Online Archive tab for your cluster.
The list of Online Archives displays.
Click the ellipsis (...) in the Actions column for the online archive to display the list of allowed actions.
You can:
- Pause Archiving (only if state is Active)
- Edit Archive
- Delete Archive
- Resume Archiving (only if state is Paused)
Select Resume Archiving from the ellipsis menu to start archiving.
The Resume Archive option is only visible for online archives in Paused state.
Pausing and Resuming Through the API
To pause an active online archive or resume a paused online
archive through the API, send a PATCH request to the
onlineArchives endpoint with the unique ID
of the online archive to pause or resume. To learn more about the API
syntax and options, see Update an Online Archive.