How to recreate a terminated cluster with a backup entry using the same name?

[Jason_Tran]

Hi @Phong_Nguyen2 - Welcome to the community

@Phong_Nguyen2

(I could not find the option on the UI, but I did manage to enable it using the option in the atlas terraform provider)

I believe the option pops up when you try to terminate a cluster (within the green box):

Note: Image is example from my test environment

Were you able to see this from the UI when trying terminating a cluster?

@Phong_Nguyen2

I removed all the snapshot in the backup entry itself, but the entry remains so I could not create the cluster with the same name.

@Phong_Nguyen2

After the weekend, I came back and saw that the entry is now gone, so there’s some mechanism that trigger the deletion. I’m not sure what it is however, and I think this should be documented somewhere as I could not found any.

Sounds like the issue mentioned above is that you’ve terminated all backups associated with the terminated cluster but aren’t able to re-create a new cluster with the same name as it still exists under the Backup section. Is this correct?

If so, I tried testing the following:

1. Created a cluster with backups enabled
2. Took an on-demand snapshot
3. Terminated the cluster associated with step 1.
4. Checked that the backups still existed (from the Backup section). They still were there.
5. Terminated all backups associated with the cluster created from step 1.
6. Checked the Backup tab to see if it was still there. It was (Cluster0 for reference):
   
   
7. After waiting ~5 minutes and refreshing, the Cluster0 disappeared from the Backup section shown above in Step 6:
   
   

I will try find out how long this generally takes but for me, it seems to have taken only a few minutes on my own test Atlas project (assuming all backups associated with the cluster in question were terminated).

Regards,
Jason