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Export Cloud Backup Snapshots to Google Cloud Storage

Note

This feature is not available for Free clusters and Flex clusters. To learn more about which features are unavailable, see Atlas Free Cluster Limits.

Atlas lets you export your Cloud Backup snapshots to Google Cloud Storage buckets automatically or manually. To configure and run exports, use the procedure that matches the type of export that you want:

To automatically export snapshots as your backup policy creates them, see Export Snapshots Automatically.
To manually export a single existing snapshot, see Export a Single Snapshot Manually.

Each procedure requires the same prerequisites.

For an overview of how Atlas exports snapshots and the files it uploads, see Export Cloud Backup Snapshots to Object Storage.

Limitations

You can't perform the following actions:

Export fallback snapshots.
Have more than one active export per snapshot.
Export view collections, or system collections, except for <database>.system.js collections.
Export snapshots from clusters in an Atlas project with IP-restricted Encryption at Rest enabled.
Export snapshots over Private Endpoints (private exports) for Azure or Google Cloud clusters.

Required Access

To create or manage a Cloud Backup export schedule or configure a Cloud Backup export bucket in Atlas, you must have Project Backup Manager or Project Owner to the project.
To create or manage a Cloud Backup export job, you must have Project Backup Export Operator or Project Owner access to the project.
To create or manage a Cloud Backup object storage private endpoint, you must have Project Owner access to the project.

Configure and Run Exports

Interface

Prerequisites

To export your Cloud Backup snapshots, you need an M10 or higher Atlas cluster with Cloud Backup enabled. In addition, to set up Atlas access to your object store, you must do the following:

Set up Google Cloud Service access.
Locate the ID of your Google Cloud service account in Atlas by following the steps in View Authorized Google Cloud Service Accounts.
In your Google Cloud console, add the service account ID from the previous step as a principal to your bucket's policy by following the Google Cloud documentation.

This grants the Storage Object User role to the service account for your specific Google Cloud Storage bucket.