Restoring a backup without the psmdb-backup resource

MongoDB Percona Backup for MongoDB
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What are the steps to restore a backup created by percona (either task or manual backup) on a external storage when that backup does not exist as a psmdb-backup resource in kubernetes?

I haven’t run in to this scenario yet, but is something I’ve been thinking about in case it happens in my system.

Is there a way to use percona to restore it without the psmdb-backup?

Or should I create a new task to create another type of backup that does not rely on percona to be restored?

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Hi,

This is already possible using ‘backupSource’ in restore object. Please check: On a new cluster - Percona Operator for MongoDB.

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Oh thank you, it went over my head when reading the docs.

They all involve using percona to restore the backup, right? Is it possible to restore it to a Atlas cluster?
I believe I’d have to restore the one from the cloud storage in a kubernetes environment, and then maybe mongodump and mongorestore on atlas, right?

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Yes @antonio_pbilby, they all involve using the operator + Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM). You can’t use this to restore to Atlas.