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Andrew PogrebnoiAlthough the introduction of physical backups in Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) made it possible to significantly cut the restore time for big datasets, it’s hard to beat snapshots in speed and efficiency. That’s why we introduced external backups (aka snapshot-based backup API) in PBM 2.2.0 The idea came from the requests to bring EBS […]
When you do a database restore, you want to have it done as soon as possible. In the case of disaster recovery, the situation is stressful enough on its own. And the database is unusable until the restore is done. So every minute matters. That becomes especially crucial with big datasets. Bringing physical backups in […]
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is a backup utility custom-built by Percona to help solve the needs of customers and users who don’t want to pay for proprietary software like MongoDB Enterprise and Ops Manager but want a fully-supported open-source backup tool that can perform cluster-wide consistent backups in MongoDB. Version 1.7.0 of PBM was […]
Prior to version 1.0, Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) had a separate coordinator daemon as a key part of its architecture. The coordinator was handling all communications with backup agents and the control program. It held a PBM configuration and backups list, made a decision on what agents should do a backup or restore, and […]