Serverless Instance Backups
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Atlas takes snapshots of serverless instances using the native snapshot capabilities of the serverless instances's cloud service provider.
Important
You can't disable backup of serverless instances.
Atlas offers the following backup options for serverless instances:
Option | Description |
|---|---|
Serverless Continuous Backup | Atlas takes incremental snapshots of the data in your
serverless instance every six hours and lets you restore the
data from a selected point in time within the last 72 hours.
Atlas also takes daily snapshots and retains these daily
snapshots for 35 days. To learn more, see
Serverless Instance Costs. |
Basic Backup | Atlas takes incremental snapshots of the data in your
serverless instance every six hours and retains only the two
most recent snapshots. You can use this option for free. |
To learn more, see Configure Serverless Instance Backup.
Limitations
You can't download serverless instance snapshots.
Custom policies are not supported for serverless instance snapshots. Atlas always takes snapshots every six hours.
If you require finer-grained backups, consider migrating to a dedicated cluster.
Atlas doesn't support on-demand snapshots for serverless instances.
You can't restore snapshots from shared clusters, dedicated clusters, or from Cloud Manager to serverless instances.
View Serverless Instance Snapshots
Atlas displays existing snapshots on the Snapshots page.
To view your snapshots:
Click Databases in the top-left corner of the Atlas UI.
From the Database Deployments view, click the name of your serverless instance.
Click the Backup tab.
Atlas displays existing snapshots in the All Snapshots table. From this table, you can restore your existing snapshots.