10gen Announces MongoDB Backup Service
If you are already using MongoDB Monitoring Service, or MMS, the next logical step here is to sign up for their backup service. MongoDB Backup Service MBS is a cloud-based service provided by 10gen for backing up and restoring MongoDB. Engineered for MongoDB, it features point-in-time recovery and is hosted in reliable, redundant and secure data centers. Update - I got access to MongoDB Backup Service and tried it out! Read more below. MongoDB backup, own way Before MBS was there, I spent some time setting up the backup scripts on one of my secondary servers in replica set, and it works very straight forward once set up: create backup archive and store in S3, and keep only 30 days worth of backups. run mongodump --oplog -u user -p pass mongobackups create backup-YYYYMMMDDHH.tar.bz2 file from mongobackups run /usr/bin/s3put to move file to S3 storage delete mongobackups folder Configure S3 storage lifecycle: Move to Glacier 1 day after creation date Expiration (delete)...