Create a Server Plan for MongoDB

Create a server plan that you can use for MongoDB. If you already have a server plan that you can use, you can skip this step.

Go to the Create Server Backup Plan Wizard

1. From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Manage > Plans.

   The Plans page appears.

2. Click Create plan, and then select Server backup.

   The Create server backup plan page appears.

General

1. Choose whether to create a new plan or use a base plan.

2. If you selected Create a new plan, in the Plan name, enter a name for the server plan.

3. If you selected Use existing base plan, specify the plan name and select a base plan.

Backup Destinations

1. Click Add copy.

   The Add copy dialog box appears.

2. In Name, enter a name for the backup destination.

3. From the Storage list, select the storage to use for the backups.

   You can use the Air Gap Protect cool storage class for creating secondary copies, but not for creating primary copies.

4. For Retention rules, enter the amount of time to retain the backups.

5. To specify additional backups, such as weekly full backups, enable the Extended retention rules toggle key, and then add rules.

6. Click Save.

   Once you have added a storage copy, you can also add a snapshot copy.

7. To add a snapshot copy, do the following:

   1. Click Add Snap copy.

      The Add snapshot copy dialog box appears.

   2. In Name, enter a name for the backup destination.

   3. From the Storage list, select the storage to use for the snapshot backups.

   4. For Retention rules, choose one of the following methods of retention of snapshots.

      • Retention period: This is the default method of retention. Use this method if you want to specify retention based on a time period.

        Note

        If the native snapshot engine is used for snapshots, the Retention period for the snap copy must be set to 0 days for it to function as a spool copy.

      • Number of snap recovery points: Use this method to set base retention on a number of snapshot recovery points.

   5. To specify additional backups, such as weekly full backups, enable the Extended retention rules toggle key, and then add rules.

   6. Click Save.

8. To add additional regions to the backup destination, enable the Multi-region toggle key, and then select the regions.

   You can also add more regions and associate the storage copy to the region.

9. Click Next.

Recovery Point Objective

Backup schedule dates and times that you select in this section are applied to the time zones of the servers that are associated to the plan. In other words, backup jobs for different servers located in different time zones run at the same time but according to different time zones. However, you can change the time zone to suit your requirements. For example, you can change the time zone to match the CommServe time zone so that all associated servers (even in different time zones) are backed up at the same time according to the CommServe time zone.

A default incremental backup is scheduled everyday at 9 PM for all agents. You can add additional backup schedules. For example, you can an additional backup schedule only for databases.

Or, you can choose to delete the default incremental backup schedule. Server plans without associated backup schedules can be used for on demand backups.

1. For Backup frequency, click Edit .

   The Edit backup frequency dialog box appears.

   1. From the Backup type list, select the backup type, and from the for list, select All agents or Databases.

   2. Specify the frequency of the backup.

   3. To specify the client time zone, full backup database frequency, or to add exceptions, enable the Advanced toggle key, and do the following:

      • If you select incremental or differential backup type for all agents or databases, to modify the full backup frequency of the database, specify a value for Run full backup on databases every option.

      • From the time zone list, select the time zone according to which the backups must run.

      • To add exceptions when the backups must not run, click Exceptions, and then add exceptions for any day of a month or week or schedule an exception for any week of the month.

        Exceptions repeat every week or month according to the selected exception.

2. To modify the transaction log frequency, for Run transaction log for databases field, click Edit .

3. From the Backup type list, select Transaction log and specify how often to run log backups.

4. For Backup window (if incremental and differential backups are supported for the workload), specify when you want incremental and differential backups to run.

5. For Full backup window, specify when you want full backups to run.

Snapshot Options

1. For Backup copy RPO, enter how often to run backup copy jobs.

   If you don't want to create backup copies, disable the Enable backup copy toggle key.

2. Click Submit.