Backups for Serverless Instances (Deprecated)
Important
As of February 2025, you can create Flex clusters, and can no longer
create M2 and M5 clusters or Serverless instances in the
Atlas UI, Atlas CLI, Atlas Administration API, Atlas Kubernetes Operator, HashiCorp Terraform,
or Atlas CloudFormation Resources.
You can still use existing M2 and M5 clusters and Serverless instances.
Atlas deprecated M2 and M5 clusters and Serverless instances.
Atlas will automatically migrate all existing M2 and M5 clusters
to Flex clusters. For Serverless instances, Atlas will
determine whether to migrate instances to Free clusters,
Flex clusters, or Dedicated clusters according to your usage.
To see which tiers Atlas will migrate your instances
to, consult the All Clusters
page in the Atlas UI.
Atlas takes snapshots of Serverless instances using the native snapshot capabilities of the Serverless instances's cloud service provider.
Warning
If you delete a serverless instance, Atlas deletes all its associated backups.
Atlas offers the following backup options for Serverless instances:
Option | Description |
|---|---|
Serverless Continuous Backup | Serverless instances are deprecated. You can't create new Serverless instances, but you can still configure their backup. Atlas takes incremental snapshots of the data in your Serverless instance every six hours and lets you restore the data from a selected point in time within the last 72 hours. Atlas also takes daily snapshots and retains these daily snapshots for 35 days. To learn more, see Costs for Serverless Instances (Deprecated). |
Basic Backup | Atlas takes incremental snapshots of the data in your Serverless instance every six hours and retains only the two most recent snapshots. You can use this option for free. |
To learn more, see Configure Backup for a Serverless Instance (Deprecated).
Limitations
You can't disable backup of Serverless instances.
You can't download Serverless instance snapshots.
Custom policies are not supported for Serverless instance snapshots. Atlas always takes snapshots every six hours.
If you require finer-grained backups, consider migrating to a dedicated cluster.
Atlas doesn't support on-demand snapshots for Serverless instances.
You can't restore snapshots from Shared clusters, dedicated clusters, or from Cloud Manager to Serverless instances.
Required Access
You must have Project Read Only access to the project to view
Serverless instance snapshots.
View Serverless Instance Snapshots
Atlas displays existing snapshots on the Snapshots page.
To view your snapshots:
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.
Atlas displays existing snapshots in the All Snapshots table. From this table, you can restore your existing snapshots.
The Atlas Administration API provides different endpoints for retrieving one or all snapshots from a given serverless cluster.