by Radoslaw Szulgo | Jan 22, 2026 | MongoDB, Percona Software
At Percona, we’ve always believed that the best software isn’t built in a vacuum—it’s built in the open, fueled by the real-world challenges of the people who use it every day. Today, I’m excited to walk you through a journey that perfectly illustrates this: the...
by Divyanshu Soni | Apr 2, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in April 2025. As a MongoDB user, ensuring your data is safe and secure in the event of a disaster or system failure is crucial. That’s why it’s essential to implement effective MongoDB...
by Edith Puclla | Jan 16, 2025 | Cloud, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
The increase of cloud-native technologies is transforming how we manage databases. Since I stepped into the world of databases and cloud-native technologies, I have encountered several initiatives aimed at developing and optimizing database operations in the cloud,...
by Ivan Groenewold | Oct 2, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) supports snapshot-based physical backups. This is made possible by the backup cursor functionality present in Percona Server for MongoDB. The flow of snapshot-based physical backup consists of these stages: Preparing the database...
by Anil Joshi | Mar 13, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
In Using Percona Backup for MongoDB in Replica Set and Sharding Environment: Part One, I demonstrated a basic Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) setup under the Replica Set and Sharding environment. Now, here we will see some advanced stuff and other backup/restore...
by Jan Wieremjewicz | Mar 5, 2024 | MongoDB, Percona Software
Those memes that were super popular a couple of years ago show how you, your family, friends, and boss see your job vs. what you actually do. “Making sure we’re doing the right things” — that’s a one-sentence catchphrase I tell my relatives when asked what is Product...
by Anil Joshi | Feb 21, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Backups are crucial for every database system, and having a reliable, fast, and hot backup is the demand for next-generation database systems. Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is a backup management tool that enhances the existing backup capability of MongoDB by...
by Andrew Pogrebnoi | Nov 20, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Although 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...
by Jan Wieremjewicz | Jul 24, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
In the previous minor release, Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.1.0 (PBM) introduced a GA version of incremental physical backups, which can greatly impact both the recovery time and the cost of backup (considering storage and data transfer cost). Back then, we already...
by Vinicius Grippa | Jul 10, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is a backup utility developed by Percona to address the needs of customers and users who prefer open source tools over proprietary software like MongoDB Enterprise and Ops Manager. PBM offers comprehensive support and ensures...
by Andrew Pogrebnoi | Apr 26, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
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...
by Jan Wieremjewicz | Jan 11, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
MongoDB is a great database that provides outstanding high availability solutions out of the box. For most Database Administrators (DBAs) we talk with, though, the awesome safety features we came to appreciate MongoDB for, like automatic failover or data redundancy,...
by Vinodh Krishnaswamy | Nov 25, 2022 | Cloud, Hardware and Storage, MongoDB, Percona Software
One of the main features that I like about the Percona Operator for MongoDB is the integration with Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) tool and the ability to backup/restore the database without manual intervention. The Operator allows backing up the DB to S3-compatible...
by Divyanshu Soni | Oct 28, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
We all know how critical it is to get our data back as soon as possible. To achieve this, as you all might be aware, we have two methods of restore available for MongoDB: logical and physical. Of course, this depends on the type of backup we have configured. For large...
by Dmytro Zghoba | Jun 15, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is a distributed backup and restore tool for sharded and non-sharded clusters. In 1.8.0, we added the replset-remapping functionality that allows you to restore data on a new compatible cluster topology. The new environment can have...
by Anastasia Alexandrova | May 27, 2022 | MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
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...
by Rafael Galinari | May 19, 2021 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This is a very straightforward article written with the intention to show you how easy it is to refresh your Test/Dev environments with PROD data, using Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM). This article will cover all the steps from the PBM configuration until the...
by Akira Kurogane | May 13, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) has reached a new step with the release of version 1.5.0 today, May 13th, 2021. Azure Blob Storage Support Now you can use Azure Blob Storage as well as S3-compatible object stores. Configuration example: storage: type: azure...
by Sergey Pronin | May 10, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Running MongoDB in Kubernetes with Percona Operator is not only simple but also by design provides a highly available MongoDB cluster suitable for mission-critical applications. In the latest 1.8.0 version, we add a feature that implements Point-in-time recovery...
by Ivan Groenewold | Nov 10, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is our open source tool for backing up MongoDB clusters. Initially, the tool was developed for restoring the backups in the same environment they are taken. In this post, I will show you how to restore a backup to a new environment...
