by Andrew Pogrebnoi | Nov 20, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Although the introduction of physical backups in Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) made it possible to significantly cut the restore time for big datasets, it’s hard to beat snapshots in speed and efficiency. That’s why we introduced external backups (aka... by Andrew Pogrebnoi | Apr 26, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
When you do a database restore, you want to have it done as soon as possible. In the case of disaster recovery, the situation is stressful enough on its own. And the database is unusable until the restore is done. So every minute matters. That becomes especially... by Andrew Pogrebnoi | May 27, 2022 | MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is a backup utility custom-built by Percona to help solve the needs of customers and users who don’t want to pay for proprietary software like MongoDB Enterprise and Ops Manager but want a fully-supported open-source backup tool... by Andrew Pogrebnoi | Jan 14, 2020 | MongoDB, Percona Software
Prior to version 1.0, Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) had a separate coordinator daemon as a key part of its architecture. The coordinator was handling all communications with backup agents and the control program. It held a PBM configuration and backups list, made a...