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Mauricio Pastorini
Mauricio Pastorini

Reputation: 842

How can I implement automatic backups in less than an hour on Atlas MongoDB?

I need backups for restoring the state of MongoDB in less than an hour, 15 minutes for example. I am using Atlas on which I can see backup features in minimum 1 hour.

Atlas backups

From previous image you could suppose that the minimum allowed is 1 hour. However, on the website they say that they use Oplog with operations of at least 1 minute.

Point in time recovery

I know that a possible solution could be have crons that create backups and upload them to something like S3.

But using atlas, can I have backups with restore feature every 15 minutes? If yes, how can I do it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 792

Answers (1)

D. SM
D. SM

Reputation: 14520

I found a good explanation of point-in-time restores here.

The backup snapshots (what you are referring to in the screenshots) must predate in time the restore point. To restore to a point newer than the snapshot time, oplog is replayed from the live deployment.

This is also alluded to in the official documentation.

So, to restore to a specific point in time, my understanding is you should be looking at the restore UI somewhere, not at UI that configures backup snapshots.

Upvotes: 1

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