# Whether a sharded cluster can use hot Backup of Percona Server for MongoDB?

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**Created:** [January 20, 2022, 8:32am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/whether-a-sharded-cluster-can-use-hot-backup-of-percona-server-for-mongodb/14010 "2022-01-20T08:32:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![zengwb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/49beb7/32.png) [@zengwb](https://forums.percona.com/u/zengwb)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 8:32am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/whether-a-sharded-cluster-can-use-hot-backup-of-percona-server-for-mongodb/14010/1 "2022-01-20T08:32:17Z")

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hi  
I have a sharded cluster, and the current backup strategy is to use Percona Server for MongoDB to combine hot backup with incremental backup. Is it ok?

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**Author:** ![Ivan\_Groenewold](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/ivan_groenewold/32/6299_2.png) [@Ivan\_Groenewold](https://forums.percona.com/u/Ivan_Groenewold)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 11:19am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/whether-a-sharded-cluster-can-use-hot-backup-of-percona-server-for-mongodb/14010/2 "2022-01-20T11:19:24Z")

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Hi, certainly you can do that although you will need to coordinate the process yourself that way (i.e. stop the balancer, etc) I suggest you consider [Percona Backup for MongoDB](https://docs.percona.com/percona-backup-mongodb/index.html) product as an alternative.