Option to restore one or more db from snap to cluster. Right now, it involves manual dump and restore
Currently we can only restore full cluster from backup like snap using GUI interface. If we want to restore one or more specific db, it needs manual dump and restore from backup. if we have an option to restore specific db to cluster through GUI interface, it will be very useful.

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Giuseppe commented
agree, feature (specify specific database or collection) it was requested by our customer to optimize cost and time to take/restore backup.
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Andrei commented
Current process of restoring a full cluster snapshot requires a lot of time (which is critical during DRP) and resources. It also very brittle due to a number of manual steps required. Having a possibility to restore specific collections would simplify the process significantly.
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Lennart commented
This feature would really help smoothen out DRP procedures. Upvoted!
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Jim commented
This would be a great feature to have.
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Ola commented
Upvoting the request, received the feedback from Customer that this feature would be very useful
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Sanket commented
This is important feature request to have backup at collection level. Everybody does not need snapshot of the entire database which could be of very large size and If I want to restore specific collection then there is a long process of getting rid of all non-required collections.
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CMI commented
I second this request. Due to the backup being a full cluster snapshot, including oplog and other internals, its size is much larger than our actual data. Being able to just backup the contents of one or more databases would lead to smaller backups that are likely also faster to restore.
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Veronika commented
I agree, we need to be able to restore individual databases from a cluster snapshot, instead of everything.
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Arvind commented
upvoting this request.
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Yong commented
At this time the Cloud Backup snapshot restore completely wipes the destination. I would like to have a function to restore only a specific collection.
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Mark commented
It is efficient and reduces overhead to store many small databases on the same cluster. However currently we also sacrifice RTO (and the ability to refresh dev/qa from backup) because we are unable to restore individual databases. Having the ability to restore an individual database from snapshot would allow us to more easily support small databases.
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Raja commented
Hello Team,
This is Raja Selvam,
I would like to get more details on Clod backup.
Lets say suppose i would like to get yesterday's backup from one of the collection.
I do not want to restore the backup into another new cluster.
I do not want to download the backup since my Data will be around 1 TB, Incase if I go for download option this will take 1 day.This solution also not working since we have to load the data to s3.
https://docs.atlas.mongodb.com/backup/cloud-backup/export/Can we have option for cloud backup like legacy backup in feature. We ate tottaly blocked because of this dis adv in atlas. Even for single doc data validation we are creating a M60 cluster with 1 TB data which will take 1 to 2 hours near also cost effective.
Please provide the best solution for the same
Sample ticket : https://support.mongodb.com/case/00900476
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Charles commented
Even with the fast attach, being able to restore specific DBs and collections from a snapshot to an existing cluster would simplify surgical restore operations.
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Nicolai commented
This is really a sore spot for Atlas.
Having to restore a full cluster, to get to a single database or collection is slow and cumbersome.Would love for individual database to be restored for backup.
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Paul commented
I would upvote this ability as well. This is simply requesting feature-parity between Cloud Backup and the (now deprecated) Legacy Backup.
Thank you,
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Brian commented
I would also like to suggest restoring the "queryable backup" functionality. We often use this to help customers that accidentally delete data, and diagnose issues by looking at the past state of the database. The removal of legacy backups in 4.2+ is what has kept us from upgrading beyond 4.0.
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Michael commented
Hello Mongo-Team,
we would like this to be possible even at the collection level.
We have several databases for different microservices on a cluster and would like to be able to restore a single collection if it has been corrupted.
The process via dump/restore is not practical for us because: It requires too much storage cache and and the data transfers over the network take too long.
Kind regards,
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Loris commented
Upvoted, we think "Queryable backups" is really needed here.
Common disaster where an individual mess up with a small subset of data (ie, an update query with the wrong filter conditions) is really painful to recover right now (we need to locally dump GB of data first, in order to cherry-pick and restore the impacted documents). -
Amrish commented
Hi,
People do delte collections by mistake. We should never need to go through all these painful procedure expecially when the production is impacted. This is most basic feature of the backup. Please do it at the earliest.
Amrish.
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David commented
Agreed, this should receive priority consideration and is a basic function for multi-tenancy; not only for Atlas, but on-prem as well. The queryable backup functionality has limitations, and even then requires a dump / restore to pull a specific database. More in-line with enterprise functionality would be to perform a direct restore for just a specific database