# *Percona Backup for MongoDB* 1.2.0

| Release date | May 13, 2020   |
|------------- | ---------------|
| Installation | [Installing Percona Backup for MongoDB](../installation.md) |


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

* [PBM-348](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PBM-348): Add ability to delete old backups

* [PBM-447](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PBM-447): pbm-speed-test: Add a tool to field-test compression and upload speeds

## Improvements

* [PBM-431](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PBM-431): Raise dump output speed through compression tuning, parallelization

* [PBM-461](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PBM-461): s2 is set as the default compression mechanism

* [PBM-429](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PBM-429): Periodic backup progress messages added to pbm-agent logs

* [PBM-140](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PBM-140): Added ability to cancel a backup

## Bugs Fixed

* [PBM-451](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PBM-451): Resync didn’t work if storage type was set to filesystem