Back Up Your Database Deployment
Note
Feature Unavailable in Free-Tier Clusters
This feature is not available for M0 free clusters. To learn
more about which features are unavailable, see
Atlas M0 (Free Cluster), M2, and M5 Limitations.
Atlas Cloud Backups provide localized backup storage using the native snapshot functionality of the cluster's cloud service provider.
Note
You must have the Project Owner role for an Atlas
project to manage backup for the clusters in that project.
Atlas supports cloud backup for clusters served on:
You can enable cloud backup during the cluster creation or during the modification of an existing cluster. From the cluster configuration modal, toggle Turn on Cloud Backup to Yes.
If you need to retain any legacy backup snapshots for archival purposes, download them before you switch to Cloud Backup from legacy backups. To learn how to download a snapshot, see Restore a Cluster from a Legacy Backup Snapshot.
When you change from Legacy Backups to Cloud Backups, Atlas retains your Legacy Backup snapshots in accordance with your legacy backup retention policy.
Important
Limitations of Cloud Backup
Cloud Backups:
Can support sharded clusters running MongoDB version 3.6 or later.
Cannot restore an existing snapshot to a cluster after you add or remove a shard from it. You may restore an existing snapshot to another cluster with a matching topology.
Note
Sharded Cluster Balancer, FCV 4.0 databases and Cloud Backup
With databases running FCV 4.0 or earlier, Cloud Backup
automatically disables the balancer for snapshots if it's running.
This ensures an inactive balancer during the backup operation. When
the snapshot completes, Cloud Backup returns the balancer to its
previous state.