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DigitalOcean Managed Databases automatically recover from hardware and software failures by replacing degraded nodes with new ones that resume from the point of failure.

To recover from accidental data loss, such as when a database administrator or application deletes data, manually restore a MongoDB database cluster from a backup.

MongoDB cluster backups run automatically once per day and are retained for seven days. Backups don’t cause downtime or reduce performance. DigitalOcean automatically sets the backup time, which can’t be modified.

Restore a MongoDB Cluster from Backups

To restore from a backup, from the Databases page, click the MongoDB database you want to restore. On its Overview page, click the Actions dropdown menu, and then select Restore from backup.

If you can’t select Restore from backup, your account or team may have reached its database cluster limit. You also can’t restore if the cluster is new and doesn’t have backups yet. To proceed, delete an existing cluster from the Databases page, or contact support to request a limit increase.

In the Restore from backup window, in the Select a backup section, choose one of the available backups, and then choose a name for the new database. By default, the name is the original database’s name appended with the date of the backup and the word “backup”, like originalname-aug-13-backup.

When finished, click Restore to New Cluster to begin the restoration. The time it takes to create the new cluster depends on the amount of data in the original.