Percona Backup for MongoDB vs SqlBak

Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is a free, open-source tool for consistent backups and restores of MongoDB replica sets and sharded clusters. It supports point-in-time recovery by saving oplog slices between backups. Operators can manage operations from its command-line interface or through a web interface with Percona Monitoring and Management. PBM offers logical, physical and incremental physical backups, plus backups of selected databases or collections; whole-database backups can include users and roles. Destinations include Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, MinIO and compatible storage, filesystem servers, Azure Blob Storage, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage and Alibaba Cloud OSS. Backup types depend on database product, version and storage engine. MongoDB Community and Enterprise Edition support logical backups only. Physical backups require Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0 or newer and WiredTiger. PBM is self-hosted and lists Linux among its platforms. It uses MongoDB authentication and authorization, and requires a PBM user in the admin database for each replica set. Percona recommends systemd credentials rather than storing connection credentials in plaintext environment variables or service files.

SqlBak automates database backups and provides a web service for managing backups from multiple servers. It lists support for SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Azure SQL, Amazon RDS for SQL Server, and MongoDB. Destinations include Amazon S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, S3-compatible storage, Backblaze B2, Box, Wasabi, Google Cloud, Aruba Cloud, Yandex Disk, FTP, local or network folders, and SSH. SQL Server tools include point-in-time recovery, full, differential, and transaction-log backups, automatic verification, compression, health monitoring, and one-click restore. The app runs as a background service on Windows or Linux servers; Docker and Raspberry Pi installation are also described. SqlBak says backups are encrypted and sent directly from the server to the user's storage, while database credentials are encrypted and kept on the server. The Free plan covers one server, two databases, and one month of backup history. Standard costs $6 a month per server, and Professional costs $9 a month per server. A 30-day trial of Professional features requires no credit card to start.