Hello All,
I am pleased to announce that in Atlas you now have an option to retain all backups when terminating an M10+ cluster.
When you terminated a cluster through the Atlas Ui, on the termination confirmation pop up, you will now see an additional toggle labeled " *Keep existing snapshots after termination* ". If you select this option when terminating your cluster, all of your backups for that cluster will be retained.
You can also choose to retain you backups for a cluster when deleting a cluster through the Atlas Administration API. When deleting a cluster through the ( https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/reference/api-resources-spec/#tag/Clusters/operation/deleteLegacyCluster ) API ( https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/reference/api-resources-spec/#tag/Clusters/operation/deleteLegacyCluster ) , you can include the retainBackups parameter and this will retain all of your backups after termination as well.
You can view or use the backups from a terminated (or other active) M10+ cluster by selecting the "Backup" tab in the left side navigation of the Atlas UI.
At any time before terminating a cluster, you can choose to take an On-Demand Snapshot, if you would like a final snapshot.
To protect from accidentally deleting a cluster in general, you can utilize the Termination Protection ( https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/cluster-additional-settings/#termination-protection ) setting in Atlas, which when enabled prevents users from deleting any cluster.
In addition to these options, if you would like to protect your backups, in all scenarios, from ever being deleted before the designated retention period has ended, please learn more about our new backup feature called Backup Compliance Policy ( https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/backup/cloud-backup/backup-compliance-policy/ ). This ensures your backups are never deleted early.
