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 cluster-wide consistent backups for MongoDB without additional costs.
MongoDB supported versions
While physical backups and restores are supported on Percona Server for MongoDB v4.2.15-16, v4.4.6-8, v5.0, and higher, incremental backups and restores, which were only recently GA-ed in PBM v2.1.0, do requires newer versions, specifically:
or higher. Using previous Percona Server MongoDB versions is not recommended since you can experience issues with the backup and the MongoDB nodes.
Using the supported Percona Server for MongoDB versions is vital to guarantee compatibility and avoid issues (including crashes). Percona recommends using the latest binaries available for Percona Backup for MongoDB and the minor versions available for your Percona MongoDB instance.
We are committed to continually enhancing PBM, and in future releases, we plan to restrict PBM from performing incremental backups on non-supported MongoDB versions. You can find more details about this task in the following link: PBM-1062.
For reference, here are the tickets detailing issues in older versions, which have resulted in improvements to Percona Server MongoDB, allowing PBM to guarantee consistent backups:
- PSMDB-1177: Fix incremental backup failure via $backupCursor for PSMDB 4.2/4.4
- PSMDB-1175: Fix PSMDB behavior when calling $backupCursor with disableIncrementalBackup option
Additional questions
For any additional questions, Percona customers can open a new support ticket.
Community users can use the usual community support channels to request help.
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