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Categories Atlas
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 29, 2020

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Annual Snapshot Retention Policy Option

I have customers that would like the ability to retain annual snapshots going back 5 or so years for compliance reasons. Currently, you can do this with monthly snapshots by retaining for 5*12 months, but then you have to store all the monthly snapshots in between.
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Aug 1, 2025
    As of March 2024, Atlas Backups now have a yearly snapshot frequency option in the UI and API. This is also available in our Terraform MongoDB Atlas Provider v1.16.0
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  • Guest
    Feb 14, 2023
    Yes, please support annual / yearly backups, we are missing this and have to do the yearly one manually atm, which is a compliance risk if we didn't do it for one reason or another. We are in the insurance industry, and if you want more customers in the financial space, this is really a MUST and OVERDUE feature to have.
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  • Guest
    Dec 7, 2021
    While this might be something we do in the future, we now have the ability to perform an export of the snapshot which is a much better archive for long retention. See https://docs.atlas.mongodb.com/backup/cloud-backup/export/
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  • Guest
    Jun 1, 2021
    mongodb doesn't have 7 years backup retention for yearly backup. Please add feature to take yearly backup and enable backup retention for years
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  • Guest
    Dec 17, 2020
    Hi Gergely, Thank you for the feedback. I'll move this to the backup section for Atlas as we'd need that as a feature first before we could support in Terraform. Moving there will allow it to be more easily seen by the right people here. Thanks! Melissa
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  • Guest
    Dec 8, 2020
    Hi, It would be great to have support for yearly backup, including via terraform: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/mongodb/mongodbatlas/latest/docs/resources/cloud_provider_snapshot_backup_policy. Thanks
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  • Guest
    Sep 22, 2020
    I agree that this would definitely enhance mongo's capabilities for compliance with client retention policies
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  • Guest
    Sep 18, 2020
    If you're using MongoDB for any kind of government contracts this is a must have.
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