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Configure Serverless Instance Backup

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  • In Atlas, go to the Clusters page for your project.
  • Go to the Serverless instance settings.
  • Modify the backup settings.
  • Save your changes.

Atlas offers the following backup options for Serverless instances:

Option
Description

Serverless Continuous 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 Serverless Instance Costs.

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 modify the backup option for your Serverless instance:

1

In Atlas, go to the Clusters page for your project.

  1. If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.

  3. If it's not already displayed, click Clusters in the sidebar.

    The Clusters page displays.

2

Go to the Serverless instance settings.

Click Edit Config and select the Serverless instance you wish to modify from the drop-down menu.

3

Modify the backup settings.

Select Serverless Continuous Backup or Basic Backup.

Note

If you change from Serverless Continuous Backup to Basic Backup, a dialog box appears to confirm that you want to disable Serverless Continuous Backup. Click Disable.

4

Save your changes.

  1. Click Review Changes.

  2. Click Apply Changes.

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