.. _PBM-1.2.0:

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*Percona Backup for MongoDB* 1.2.0
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:Date: May 13, 2020
:Installation: `Installing Percona Backup for MongoDB <https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-backup-mongodb/installation.html>`_

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).


New Features
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* :jirabug:`PBM-348`: Add ability to delete old backups
* :jirabug:`PBM-447`: pbm-speed-test: Add a tool to field-test compression and upload speeds



Improvements
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* :jirabug:`PBM-431`: Raise dump output speed through compression tuning, parallelization
* :jirabug:`PBM-461`: s2 is set as the default compression mechanism
* :jirabug:`PBM-429`: Periodic backup progress messages added to pbm-agent logs
* :jirabug:`PBM-140`: Added ability to cancel a backup



Bugs Fixed
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* :jirabug:`PBM-451`: Resync didn't work if storage type was set to filesystem



