# Point in Time recovery

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/point-in-time-recovery/7449>\
**Category:** Percona Backup for MongoDB\
**Created:** [March 2, 2020, 2:13am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/point-in-time-recovery/7449 "2020-03-02T02:13:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![columnar64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@columnar64](https://forums.percona.com/u/columnar64)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 2:13am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/point-in-time-recovery/7449/1 "2020-03-02T02:13:35Z")

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Hi all,

Perhaps I am just missing an obvious section in the documentation, but I am trying to get a better handle on the Percona backup tool(s). This is with particular regard to the ability to have point in time recovery as in the Enterprise Ops Manager.

Regards

John

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**Author:** ![lorraine.pocklington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/lorraine.pocklington/32/37_2.png) [@lorraine.pocklington](https://forums.percona.com/u/lorraine.pocklington)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 8:36am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/point-in-time-recovery/7449/2 "2020-03-02T08:36:44Z")

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Hello columnar64

Currently Percona Backup for MongoDB doesn’t support PITR directly. You can use it for full back ups and then apply the oplog manually.

There’s a blog post here that might help: [URL][https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/07/05/mongodb-disaster-snapshot-restore-and-point-in-time-replay/[/URL]](https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/07/05/mongodb-disaster-snapshot-restore-and-point-in-time-replay/%5B/URL%5D)

And also these (older): [URL][https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/12/16/mongodb-pit-backups-in-depth/[/URL]](https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/12/16/mongodb-pit-backups-in-depth/%5B/URL%5D) and [URL][https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/09/20/mongodb-point-in-time-backups-made-easy/[/URL]](https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/09/20/mongodb-point-in-time-backups-made-easy/%5B/URL%5D)

If you would like to know when the tool supports PITR, you might find it useful to follow this development log: [url][[PBM-237] Add the config options to enable PITR - Percona JIRA](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PBM-237%5B/url%5D)

Hope this helps?