# Does hot backup to s3 support other S3 compatible storages except Amazon s3 and MinIO? **URL:** \ **Category:** Percona Server for MongoDB\ **Tags:** percona, mongodb\ **Created:** [October 26, 2021, 10:29am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/does-hot-backup-to-s3-support-other-s3-compatible-storages-except-amazon-s3-and-minio/12752 "2021-10-26T10:29:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lily1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@lily1](https://forums.percona.com/u/lily1)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 10:29am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/does-hot-backup-to-s3-support-other-s3-compatible-storages-except-amazon-s3-and-minio/12752/1 "2021-10-26T10:29:15Z")
Hi Dear, I am trying the hot backup to s3 feature, but my S3 is neither Amazon s3 nor MinIO, Does it work? Thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![matthewb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/matthewb/32/34_2.png) [@matthewb](https://forums.percona.com/u/matthewb)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/does-hot-backup-to-s3-support-other-s3-compatible-storages-except-amazon-s3-and-minio/12752/2 "2021-10-26T12:54:09Z")
Provided your S3 follows the S3 standard, it should work. What are you using? ---
**Author:** ![lily1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@lily1](https://forums.percona.com/u/lily1)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 4:13am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/does-hot-backup-to-s3-support-other-s3-compatible-storages-except-amazon-s3-and-minio/12752/3 "2021-10-27T04:13:25Z")
Thank you so much for your reply. I can backup to s3 now. And sorry to bother you, I have some new questions: 1. How to restore from s3? The guide just only show how to restore from local dir. Is there some command to restore? or I need copy the data from s3 to local data dir manually？ 2. How to restore to a shard? Is it the same with the method of restoring to a replica set and data will be balanced later? 3. Can we backup and restore by db or collection and backup with specified timestamp? 4. Can we divide large data when backup or restore? 5. Do we backup the oplog generated during the backup processing? Your help is highly appreciated!!! Thank you so much. ---
**Author:** ![Sergey\_Pronin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/sergey_pronin/32/14887_2.png) [@Sergey\_Pronin](https://forums.percona.com/u/Sergey_Pronin)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/does-hot-backup-to-s3-support-other-s3-compatible-storages-except-amazon-s3-and-minio/12752/4 "2021-10-27T13:01:57Z")
Hello @lily1 , 1. You just do `pbm restore` and it is going to use the backup configuration you have set before. In case of S3 it is going to download the files from S3. You don’t need to download files manually. 2. It is the same method, yes. 3. Unfortunately it is not possible to backup/restore single db or collection for now. We have it in our roadmap though. As for timestamp - yes. It can be done with point-in-time recovery being enabled. 4. Not sure what you mean here. Could you please elaborate? 5. Yes, we do. ---
**Author:** ![lily1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@lily1](https://forums.percona.com/u/lily1)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 1:21pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/does-hot-backup-to-s3-support-other-s3-compatible-storages-except-amazon-s3-and-minio/12752/5 "2021-10-27T13:21:09Z")
Hi spronin, ``` Thank you so much for your so quick reply. Regarding the first question, I am using percona server for mongodb, and backup the data file by issue the command " db.runCommand({createBackup:1,xxxxxx})", what is the corresponding command to the restore? Seems pbm is logical backup, while the hot backup is physical backup, right? If I am correct, Does the hot backup support the PITR? May I know the plan of the backup/restore single db or collection, I am looking forward to the feature. :-) Regarding the fourth question above, I mean maybe even a single data file is large, I am wondering if there are some resource limit, Is there possible that the backup/restore process will failed if the whole file was copied. Is there some measures to avoid this, like divide a large data file into some smaller data files? ``` Thank you so much. ---
**Author:** ![Sergey\_Pronin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/sergey_pronin/32/14887_2.png) [@Sergey\_Pronin](https://forums.percona.com/u/Sergey_Pronin)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/does-hot-backup-to-s3-support-other-s3-compatible-storages-except-amazon-s3-and-minio/12752/6 "2021-10-28T11:29:49Z")
@lily1 , yes, PBM is logical and has support for PITR. There is no PITR for physical backup yet, but we plan to implement it in PBM as well. ETA would be Q1’2022. Restoring single collection is also planned, but this would be possible only with logical backup. ```auto Regarding the fourth question above, I mean maybe even a single data file is large, I am wondering if there are some resource limit, Is there possible that the backup/restore process will failed if the whole file was copied. Is there some measures to avoid this, like divide a large data file into some smaller data files? ``` I assume it is for the case of hot backup? Let me check internally. @Andrew_Pogrebnoi any thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![lily1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@lily1](https://forums.percona.com/u/lily1)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 1:18pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/does-hot-backup-to-s3-support-other-s3-compatible-storages-except-amazon-s3-and-minio/12752/7 "2021-10-28T13:18:31Z")
Hi spronin， Very glad to get your reply. So it can not be supported to restore single collection for physical backup, right? How about single db? It can not be supported for physical backup, either？ Regarding the restoring single collection for logical backup, seems mongodump supports it, What’s the difference between them? Yes, it is for the case of hot backup. Looking forward to your reply. Your help is highly appreciated!!! ---
**Author:** ![Sergey\_Pronin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/sergey_pronin/32/14887_2.png) [@Sergey\_Pronin](https://forums.percona.com/u/Sergey_Pronin)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/does-hot-backup-to-s3-support-other-s3-compatible-storages-except-amazon-s3-and-minio/12752/8 "2021-10-28T13:35:56Z")
Hello @lily1 , looks like I brought confusion instead of some clarity 🙂 | Solution | Physical backup | Logical backup | PITR | Single collection recovery | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | PBM | No, but in the roadmap | Yes | Logical: yes Physical: planned | No, but in the roadmap for logical backup | | hot backup | Yes, only one replica set | No, not planned | No, not planned | No, not planned | | $backupCursor | Yes, sharded cluster as well | No, not planned | No, will be in PBM | No, not planned | Hope this helps 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lily1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@lily1](https://forums.percona.com/u/lily1)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 1:51pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/does-hot-backup-to-s3-support-other-s3-compatible-storages-except-amazon-s3-and-minio/12752/9 "2021-10-28T13:51:28Z")
Hi spronin， Thank you so much. It is very clear. 🙂