# Does Percona backup for MongoDB v1.2.0 now support 4.2 Distributed Transactions?

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**Category:** Percona Backup for MongoDB\
**Created:** [June 24, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/does-percona-backup-for-mongodb-v1-2-0-now-support-4-2-distributed-transactions/7716 "2020-06-24T02:20:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ccccc\_Cora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Ccccc\_Cora](https://forums.percona.com/u/Ccccc_Cora)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/does-percona-backup-for-mongodb-v1-2-0-now-support-4-2-distributed-transactions/7716/1 "2020-06-24T02:20:59Z")

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As referred in this URL :&nbsp;[https://www.percona.com/sites/default/files/ple19-slides/day2-am/percona-backup-for-mongodb.pdf](https://www.percona.com/sites/default/files/ple19-slides/day2-am/percona-backup-for-mongodb.pdf)  
  
Does Percona backup for MongoDB v1.2.0 now support 4.2 Distributed Transactions?  
Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Immamac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ee7513/32.png) [@Immamac](https://forums.percona.com/u/Immamac)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 12:28am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/does-percona-backup-for-mongodb-v1-2-0-now-support-4-2-distributed-transactions/7716/2 "2020-06-26T00:28:56Z")

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It does provide a cluster and transaction consistent backup. As far as I know it is the only open source tool that can take a consistent clusterwide transaction safe backup and is a viable alternative to solutions that ship with mongodb enterprise edition.&nbsp;