.. _PBM-1.6.1: ================================================================================ *Percona Backup for MongoDB* 1.6.1 ================================================================================ :Date: November 4, 2021 :Installation: `Installing Percona Backup for MongoDB `_ Percona Backup for MongoDB is a distributed, low-impact solution for consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets. This is a tool for creating consistent backups across a MongoDB sharded cluster (or a single replica set), and for restoring those backups to a specific point in time. Release Highlights ================== * Deprecated support for MongoDB 3.6. |PBM| remains compatible with MongoDB 3.6 and |PSMDB| 3.6; however, further enhancements and bug fixes are no longer tested against this version. * Improved backup and PITR routines alignment by using sequential ``delete-pitr``/``install-backup`` operations instead of in-memory backup intent. This fixes the inability of a backup to start. * Added support for automated access to S3 buckets using an EC2 instance profile. When |PBM| is deployed using an EC2 instance, EC2 environment variables and metadata are used for S3 authentication, saving you from explicitly specifying S3 credentials in the |PBM| configuration file. This comes handy for architectures deployed using the services like Amazon EC2, kiam, kube2iam or irsa. * Extended logging for ``pbm-agents``. This improves user experience with |PBM|. Improvements ================================================================================ * :jirabug:`PBM-740`: Use AWS EC2 instance profile to simplify access to S3 buckets for PBM Bugs Fixed ================================================================================ * :jirabug:`PBM-714`: Fix backup and point-in-time recovery routines alignment algorithm to avoid backup failure * :jirabug:`PBM-722`: Fix ``pbm-agent``'s crash during the ``delete-pitr`` request execution if there is nothing to delete (Thanks to Daniel Oliver for reporting this issue) * :jirabug:`PBM-735`: Fix a possible failure of a PITR catchup process to copy backup slices * :jirabug:`PBM-712`: Fix an empty time value in JSON formatted log records by using Unix timestamps for time output .. include:: ../.res/replace.txt