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Created by Guest
Created on Apr 9, 2020

GUI for Queryable Snapshots

It would be good to have a GUI created for the queryable snapshot interface so less experienced users, that may not have any mongod experience, can successfully restore a collection/document without additional training. Ideally, the feature allows for the creation of some subset of documents using a query building tool (even collection level would be acceptable) that can then be pushed to a target environment automatically or pushed to a mongodump file that can be used as a restore tool later. Their primary concern is just to ensure that individuals without direct mongod experience or server access can generate a restore and circumvent the current process of spinning up a tunnel and creating a query manually. An example workflow would be: 1. Deployment -> Backups -> Enable Queryable Restore for Source Job for PIT 2. Click Query Snapshot Builder 3. Select collection or build query 4. Display example result set 5. Select push to dump or push to cluster a. Push to snapshot: generate mongodump for query/collection and provide example mongorestore string b. Push to cluster: select target cluster and confirm deploy
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  • Guest
    Mar 14, 2022
    @Damian, your ask is related likely to https://feedback.mongodb.com/forums/924145-atlas/suggestions/41700673-add-tunnelling-to-allow-querying-cloud-backup-snap
  • Guest
    Sep 8, 2020
    Thoughts from my recent experience with recovering a document from new Cloud Backups: It was just necessary for me to download a snapshot in order to retrieve a document that a customer had accidentally messed up, This worked ok, but it does take a long time to download. This seems like a terrible solution for large databases. Legacy backups allowed querying of snapshots without downloading, this was great and allowed me to hunt through multiple snapshots to find the data I needed quickly. Under Cloud Backups, such a process may be unviable, especially with large databases A GUI or some other means of quickly querying a backup snapshot would be most welcome.