Backup and Recovery Management

Backup Methods

The backup includes two methods, automatic backup and manual backup.

Automatic Backup

The automatic backup is set by default to backup once a time on every Wednesday and Sunday from 5:00 to 6:00. You can click the “Automatic Backup Policy” button to adjust the automatic backup policy, including whether to enable automatic backup, backup cycle, and backup time.

The backup data would keep the latest 7 copies and the maximum retention period is 30 days. If you need to keep the backup data for a long term, please download it by yourself.

Manual Backup

MongoDB supports manual backup, and users can save important data backups at some key times. When creating manual backup, users only need to enter the backup name, and the backend will immediately start the backup work.

Manual backup allows to keep the latest 3 copies. If it exceeds 3, the earliest manual backup will be deleted automatically. The maximum retention period for backup data is 30 days. If you need to keep the backup data for a long term, please download and save it by yourself.

Backup Cancellation

Users can see all backups on the “Backup Management” page. For unfinished backups, users can click the “Cancel” button to cancel the backup.

Backup Downloads

Users can download the backup files generated by automatic and manual backup (shard set backup is not supported for download at present).

If you want to view the backup files of corresponding MongoDB instances, please select the corresponding MongoDB instances and click “Backup Management” on the details page; you can open the backup list of the MongoDB instance.

Click download to pop up the download box for download.

Restore to New Instance from Backup

Users can select “Restore to New Instance” in the backup file list to create a MongoDB instance from the backup. The initialization time depends on the size of the data.

Note:

The backup file compression ratio is 5:1, so it is recommended that the disk space allocated during instance creation be at least five times the size of the backup file.

Recovery Management

Click on recovery management to view the current cluster recovery list.

Click on UMongoDB management, you can see that the target cluster has appeared in the cluster list.