{"id":863,"date":"2022-01-25T12:30:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T12:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workfall.com\/learning\/blog\/?p=863"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:03:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:03:41","slug":"how-to-manage-backups-for-amazon-documentdb-cluster-with-mongodb-compatibility-using-aws-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learning.workfall.com\/learning\/blog\/how-to-manage-backups-for-amazon-documentdb-cluster-with-mongodb-compatibility-using-aws-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"How to manage backups for Amazon DocumentDB cluster (with MongoDB compatibility) using AWS Backup?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 8<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

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Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) cluster backups are now supported by AWS Backup<\/a>, expanding the list of AWS features that are supported across compute, storage, and database. With this release, you’ll be able to maintain and restore backups for the Amazon DocumentDB database clusters via the AWS Backup service all at one place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can use AWS Backup to centralize and automate data backup across all of your AWS services. AWS Backup is a low-cost, fully managed, policy-based service that makes data protection at scale even easier. AWS Backup also assists in meeting your regulatory compliance duties and business continuity objectives. Exploring the console and configuring the setup for the backup of the cluster, we will see how we can create an on-demand backup job of an Amazon DocumentDB cluster, how to use a backup plan to backup the data, and how to add resources to an existing backup plan. In this blog, we will see how we can configure the AWS Backup console to create a backup for the Amazon DocumentDB cluster and restore the same onto a new cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this hands-on, we will see how we can make use of the AWS Backup service to create automated backups with the help of a backup plan, create an on-demand backup job for creating a backup for the DocumentDB cluster and finally restore the backup to a new Amazon DocumentDB cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will go through a process of creating a backup for an existing or a new Amazon DocumentDB cluster followed by restoring the backup onto a new cluster on the Amazon DocumentDB clusters<\/a> page. With AWS Backup, we can create backup policies called backup plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These plans can then be used to define the backup requirements, such as how frequently you wish to back up the data and how long to retain those backups. We will first create a new Amazon DocumentDB cluster that we will be backing up and restoring it onto a new cluster. Once the cluster is configured, we will create a new backup plan using an existing template.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then we will create an on-demand backup job assigning the Amazon DocumentDB cluster to it. Once the backup job is created, we will navigate to the default Backup Vault and restore the backup job that we created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, we will navigate to the Amazon DocumentDB cluster to check if the cluster was restored successfully and then have a look at how we can modify the settings for the newly restored cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the entire process, we will need access to the AWS Backup service to create backups followed by an Amazon DocumentDB cluster and we will have to configure the settings of Amazon Backup service to manage the Amazon DocumentDB resource type to be able to schedule backups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To implement this, we will do the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n