Flex Cluster Backups
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Atlas takes daily snapshots of Flex clusters. Atlas takes these snapshots automatically starting 24 hours after you create your cluster.
Atlas always takes Flex clusters snapshots from a secondary node to minimize performance impact.
Atlas retains the last 8 daily snapshots, which you can download or restore to an Atlas cluster.
Required Access
To manage backups for a Flex cluster, you must have
Project Owner access to the project.
Users with Organization Owner access must add themselves
as a Project Owner to the project before they can manage backups.
Limitations
Custom policies are not supported for Flex cluster snapshots. Atlas always takes a single daily snapshot at the same time, starting 24 hours after the cluster was created.
If you require finer-grained backups, consider upgrading to an
M10or larger cluster tier.On-demand snapshots are not supported for Flex clusters.
You can't restore Flex cluster snapshots to a sharded cluster. You can only restore Flex cluster snapshots to replica sets.
Backup Snapshot Storage Locations
The following table indicates where Atlas stores Flex cluster snapshots:
Cluster Location | Snapshot Storage Location |
|---|---|
Australia | Australia |
Germany | Germany |
Hong Kong | Australia |
India, Singapore, Taiwan | Asia |
USA | USA |
All other cluster locations | Ireland |
View Flex Cluster Backup Snapshots
Atlas displays existing snapshots for a given cluster on the Snapshots page. To view snapshots that Atlas has already taken:
In Atlas, go to the Clusters page for your project.
If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
If it's not already displayed, click Clusters in the sidebar.
The Clusters page displays.
Go to the Backup page for your cluster.
Click your cluster's name.
Click the Backup tab.
If the cluster has no Backup tab, then Atlas backups are disabled for that cluster and no snapshots are available. You can enable backups when you scale the cluster.
The Backup page displays.
Alternatively, to view a list of all M10+ clusters with
cloud backup enabled:
In Atlas, go to the Backup details for your project.
If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it's not already displayed, select your project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
In the sidebar, click Backup under the Security heading.
The Backup details display.
The Atlas Administration API provides endpoints for retrieving one or all snapshots from a given Flex cluster:
Additionally, Atlas displays existing Flex cluster snapshots in the All Daily Snapshots table. From this table, you can restore or download your existing snapshots.
Note
The Atlas CLI does not support Flex cluster backup snapshots.