Percona Backup for MongoDB 0.2.0-Alpha Is Now Available

Percona announces the first public release of Percona Backup for MongoDB 0.2.0-Alpha on January 10, 2019.

Percona Backup for MongoDB is a distributed, low-impact solution for consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets. This is a tool for creating consistent backups across a MongoDB sharded cluster (or a single replica set), and for restoring those backups to a specific point in time. Percona Backup for MongoDB uses a distributed client/server architecture to perform backup/restore actions. The project was inspired by (and intends to replace) the Percona-Lab/mongodb_consistent_backup tool.

This release features:

• Consistent backup of sharded clusters
• Compression of oplogs and logical backups
• Backup and restore from local files
• Backup to S3
• Running the backup on a single replica set using the safest node (preferably non-Primary or hidden nodes with the lowest replication priority and smallest replication lag)

Future releases will include:

• Restore from S3
• Encryption of backup data
• Support for Percona Server for MongoDB Hot Backup as a backup method

Percona Backup for MongoDB supports Percona Server for MongoDB or MongoDB Community Server version 3.6 or higher with MongoDB replication enabled. Binaries for the supported platforms as well as the tarball with source code are available from the GitHub repository (https://github.com/percona/percona-backup-mongodb/releases/tag/v0.2.0). For more information about Percona Backup for MongoDB and the installation steps, see this README file.

Note Percona doesn’t recommend this release for production, and its API and configuration fields are likely to change in the future. It does not feature any API level security. You are welcome to report any bugs you encounter in our bug tracking system.