This feature is going to be valuable for users who run big clusters (more than few TBs of data) and who want to leverage snapshot capabilities of the storage provider (for example EBS snapshots), instead of object storage.
We might need to implement this in phases:
Document how this can be done now (mostly manual steps)
Community Note
Tell us about the feature
Percona Backup for MongoDB supports taking storage snapshots: [https://docs.percona.com/percona-backup-mongodb/features/snapshots.html|https://docs.percona.com/percona-backup-mongodb/features/snapshots.html|smart-link]
This feature is going to be valuable for users who run big clusters (more than few TBs of data) and who want to leverage snapshot capabilities of the storage provider (for example EBS snapshots), instead of object storage.
We might need to implement this in phases:
Document how this can be done now (mostly manual steps)
Automate
Add support for point-in-time recovery
Link to JIRA