# How to Percona helps me for creating a backup of monogodb

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**Created:** [January 10, 2025, 6:54am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-percona-helps-me-for-creating-a-backup-of-monogodb/36068 "2025-01-10T06:54:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Harish\_modi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/harish_modi/32/18934_2.png) [@Harish\_modi](https://forums.percona.com/u/Harish_modi)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 6:54am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-percona-helps-me-for-creating-a-backup-of-monogodb/36068/1 "2025-01-10T06:54:02Z")

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I want to use percona for creating a backup of my mongodb database .How it can helps me creating a backup .And if i want to know how percona works and what are prerequisite of percorna .then how can i do this

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**Author:** ![Vinodh\_Krishnaswamy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/vinodh_krishnaswamy/32/46_2.png) [@Vinodh\_Krishnaswamy](https://forums.percona.com/u/Vinodh_Krishnaswamy)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-percona-helps-me-for-creating-a-backup-of-monogodb/36068/2 "2025-01-10T07:28:38Z")

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Hi Harish,  
We have Percona Backup for MongoDB(PBM) tool for taking backup of replicaset or sharded cluster. You can take logical, physical and incremental backups using PBM. I suggest you to go through the following links to know more about its implementations:

> **[Percona Backup for MongoDB - Quickstart guide](https://docs.percona.com/percona-backup-mongodb/installation.html)**
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> Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is an open source and distributed solution for consistent backups and restore of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets. Learn how PBM works.

> **[Percona Backup for MongoDB - Supported MongoDB versions](https://docs.percona.com/percona-backup-mongodb/details/versions.html)**
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> Percona Backup for MongoDB is compatible with:

> **[Using Percona Backup for MongoDB in Replica Set and Sharding Environments:...](https://www.percona.com/blog/using-percona-backup-for-mongodb-in-replica-set-and-sharding-environment-part-one/)**
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> Percona Backup for MongoDB enhances the existing backup capability of MongoDB. Here's how to use it in MongoDB topologies such as replica set and sharding.

Regards,  
Vinodh Guruji