# Cancel a backup You can cancel a running backup if, for example, you want to do another maintenance of a server and don’t want to wait for the large backup to finish first. To cancel the backup, use the `pbm cancel-backup` command. ```sh pbm cancel-backup Backup cancellation has started ``` After the command execution, the backup is marked as canceled in the [pbm status](../manage/troubleshooting.md#percona-backup-for-mongodb-status) output: ```sh pbm status ``` **Output**: `2020-04-30T18:05:26Z Canceled at 2020-04-30T18:05:37Z`