Back Up a Sharded Cluster with Database Dumps

Note

mongodump and mongorestorecannot be part of a backup strategy for 4.2+ sharded clustersthat have sharded transactions in progress as these tools cannotguarantee a atomicity guarantees of data across the shards.

For 4.2+ sharded clusters with in-progress sharded transactions, forcoordinated backup and restore processes that maintain the atomicityguarantees of transactions across shards, see:

• MongoDB Atlas,
• MongoDB Cloud Manager, or
• MongoDB Ops Manager.

For MongoDB 4.0 and earlier deployments, refer to the correspondingversions of the manual. For example:

• https://docs.mongodb.com/v4.0
• https://docs.mongodb.com/v3.6
• https://docs.mongodb.com/v3.4