# Backup Frequency

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-frequency/9572>\
**Category:** Percona Backup for MongoDB\
**Created:** [March 7, 2021, 4:55am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-frequency/9572 "2021-03-07T04:55:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![AlbertK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@AlbertK](https://forums.percona.com/u/AlbertK)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 4:55am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-frequency/9572/1 "2021-03-07T04:55:24Z")

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Hi,

Is there a setting for full and incrementation backup frequency? Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Akira\_Kurogane](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/akira_kurogane/32/1280_2.png) [@Akira\_Kurogane](https://forums.percona.com/u/Akira_Kurogane)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-frequency/9572/2 "2021-03-08T01:35:31Z")

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HI Albert.

There isn’t an inbuilt scheduler in Percona Backup for MongoDB to make full snapshots. Instead we suggest using crond or a similar service to run “pbm backup” as a shell command.

Regarding the incremental backups - when you enable PBM’s PITR they will be every 10 mins. This is not configurable yet but it is in the mid-term todo list to make it so ([[PBM-543] Configure the size of the span of oplog events for point-in-time recovery - Percona JIRA](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PBM-543)).

An inbuilt scheduler for making the full backups has been suggested as a feature ([[PBM-530] Add an internal timer to run backup snapshots - Percona JIRA](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PBM-530)) but it is not a priority feature at the moment. The next features in progress are Azure support (PBM-496) and priority weights (PBM-488).

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**Author:** ![AlbertK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@AlbertK](https://forums.percona.com/u/AlbertK)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2021, 2:24am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-frequency/9572/3 "2021-03-08T02:24:58Z")

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Hi,

Thank you for the reply. That is what I needed. One suggestion, It would be nice that this is documented in the User Manual.

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**Author:** ![Akira\_Kurogane](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/akira_kurogane/32/1280_2.png) [@Akira\_Kurogane](https://forums.percona.com/u/Akira_Kurogane)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2021, 5:09am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-frequency/9572/4 "2021-03-08T05:09:10Z")

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Fair call. I created PBM-648 to add something to the documentation.