# Restoring a backup without the psmdb-backup resource

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**Category:** Percona Backup for MongoDB\
**Created:** [May 6, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/restoring-a-backup-without-the-psmdb-backup-resource/40751 "2026-05-06T17:49:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![antonio\_pbilby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@antonio\_pbilby](https://forums.percona.com/u/antonio_pbilby)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/restoring-a-backup-without-the-psmdb-backup-resource/40751/1 "2026-05-06T17:49:23Z")

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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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**Author:** ![eleonora.zinchenko](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/eleonora.zinchenko/32/19132_2.png) [@eleonora.zinchenko](https://forums.percona.com/u/eleonora.zinchenko)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 6:15pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/restoring-a-backup-without-the-psmdb-backup-resource/40751/2 "2026-05-06T18:15:16Z")

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Hi,

This is already possible using ‘backupSource’ in restore object. Please check: [On a new cluster - Percona Operator for MongoDB](https://docs.percona.com/percona-operator-for-mongodb/backups-restore-to-new-cluster.html#restore-from-a-backup-to-a-new-kubernetes-based-environment).

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**Author:** ![antonio\_pbilby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@antonio\_pbilby](https://forums.percona.com/u/antonio_pbilby)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/restoring-a-backup-without-the-psmdb-backup-resource/40751/3 "2026-05-06T19:19:09Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Ege\_Gunes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/ege_gunes/32/4595_2.png) [@Ege\_Gunes](https://forums.percona.com/u/Ege_Gunes)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2026, 7:30am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/restoring-a-backup-without-the-psmdb-backup-resource/40751/4 "2026-05-07T07:30:08Z")

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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.