Percona Backup for MongoDB Reviews

Summary: Overall It was a positive experience for me, I have been using Percona Backup for quite a while now and really am happy with the services. I used Percona Backup for MongoDB for custom-built backup by Percona, As I am a college student and does not have that much money to pay for proprietary software like MongoDB Enterprise and Ops Manager but I wanted a fully-supported community backup tool that can perform cluster-wide consistent backups in MongoDB. And thanks to Percona Backup I was able to do all this efficiently without a massive overhead. Been using it from last 8 months and really happy with the product. Definitely recommend to people especially to college students who are short on budget and want efficient and cheap solutions.

Positive: 1. Great alternative to enterprise proprietary software like MongoDB Enterprise and Ops Manager.
2. Cheap, easy to setup, hassle-free solution
3. Satisfies security aspects
4. Ideal choice for college students, getting the correct functionality without a massive overhead.

Negative: Struggled with some documentation and support issues, took me some time to figure it out on my own. Things in the documentation are very much abstract, you need to really dwell deep to understand the mechanism of it.

Summary: Overall experience is so good, and I implemented many environments and suggested them to other end users as well.

Positive: 1. It is free of cost
2. Efficient to use
3. Easy to backup and restore
4. Point-in-time recovery is best for recovery data
5. Data is very safe in the S3 bucket

Negative: Need more elaborate documentation for easy understanding. It will be very useful for great beginners.

Summary: It's awesome. We have configured for our product solution . Easy to use and really loved the product and I have written big blog about this in medium.

Positive: 1. Fast Backup solution
2. Easy to integrate with AWS and Azure Cloud
3. Easy Steps to Backup , Restore and PITR
4. Friendly tool for DBA and Administrator
5. Easy to troubleshoot

Negative: Some time getting no backup found errors , unable to get solution to fix.

Summary: It is an extremely easy community backup support tool.
Am happy as the cluster backup has improved now.

Positive: Open Source-Free, Compatible with most of Clouds, Easy to use and easy to deploy.
The server is developer friendly.

Negative: Time Consuming as backup is slower.
Other than that, no other dislikes, hoping for better features.

Summary: It provides backup solutions that help to restore data from any point in history without any loss of data. The restore is instant and without a hassle.

Positive: The Percona backup for MongoDB Solution works for both shared as well as a classic cluster. It also supports point-in-time restore.

Negative: Percona Backup for MongoDB doesn’t work on standalone MongoDB instances.

Summary: I just wanted a way to back up information and forget about it. Now I feel confident that my files are safe. I threw away my external backup drive, which was always a liability. This software put my mind at ease.

Positive: I don't have to think about losing information if something were to happen to my external backup drive. Easy to use. No strain on my day.

Negative: Maybe a little more involved than what I need, but I'm sure the power users are happy about that.

Summary: My first reason to use Percona-It is Open Source Software ,Yes it is free to use.The best thing is it will compatible with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc. It is also integrated with MongoDB authentication.It also saves your time because it is very much reliable software which i have used. Percona uses S3 (or S3-compatible) object storage for the remote store. Percona Backup for MongoDB gives a guarantee of safety and consistency of our data.I have Used it Nearly 6 Months For me it is really impressive to me Just Go For It

Positive: The pros are:
1. Open Source-Free
2. Compatible with most of Clouds
3. Consistency backup
4. Integrated with MongoDB authentication
5. Easy to use and easy to deploy

Negative: The cons are
1. Only Command line interface.
2. Sometimes Slow for large data.
Hope But these cons are rectify in Future.

Summary: Backups are required even though losing a single server is not fatal. Percona helps to go back in time to the best available snapshot.

Positive: Best solution for achieving consistent backups. You can use any S3 compatible storage and there is no need to install coordination service on a separate server.

Negative: Until now not faced any serious issue which can make this product bad for me.

Summary: So finally I found a platform which integrated with MongoDB authentication. This product it's so user friendly and very helpful.

Positive: It is free and easy to use and I love their simple & integrated-with-MongoDB authentication. This product it's so user friendly and very helpful.

Negative: I don't have any concerns. This product it's so user friendly and very helpful.

Summary: MongoDB backups have become really easy especially because Percona backup tool is a fully community supported backup tool. The cluster backup consistency has improved a lot.

Positive: The best thing I like is the excellent documentation.
It is fast, easy to use and has a great customer support.
Can automate backup which is completely hassle free.

Negative: Backup is a little bit slow and GUI tool doesn't exist which is a bummer.

Summary: We like the hot backups which have no downtime and is helpful for point in time restore. It is very useful since the operational logs on each shared are saved separately while the backup is still running until completion. Compatible with various cloud vendors.

Positive: Some of the key features that I liked about this product are:
Multi OS compatibility.
Awesome encryption and compression.
Backup of running server without performance degradation.

Negative: I have nothing to complain so far with this product. Only thing is maybe the community is not as active as I want it to be.

Summary: I can say that my overall experience is quite good with the product. In two words it is consistent and reliable.

Positive: It is free and easy to use with good customer support and a very well- written documentation.

Negative: The speed of backup is quite slow and only the command line interface exist no graphic user interface.

Summary: Overall reliable, secure and great performance backup solution for consistent backup. I would definitely recommend this tool.

Positive: Easy to use and Open source.
Speed and performance it provides makes it a perfect tool as per my usage.
Consistency backup.
No downtime or issues so far.
Can automate backup.

Negative: Documentation can be more user friendly for beginners.
No GUI and Command line based tool.

Summary: Good consistency and reliability.

Positive: Free to use.
Easy to use.
Real time performance analysis.
Good support and documentation.

Negative: Improvements needed in:
Speed of backup.
Integration and setup.
No GUI currently.
Only CLI.

Summary: Its is an awesome tool with great performance and thus can be applied in the real world applications.

Positive: It is an excellent product with many advantages:
- Good performance
- Fast and easy
- Free and open source

Negative: As such now I have not faced any issue with the product.