Self-Managed Backup & Recovery

In this unit, you learned how to:

• Identify key elements of backup plans
• Distinguish between Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
• Define what a snapshot is
• Create a snapshot volume on Linux
• Create a filesystem archive on Linux
• Use mongodump to create a backup of a replica set that has access control enabled
• Use mongorestore to restore a MongoDB replica set

Resources

Use the following resources to learn more about backup and recovery with MongoDB:

Lesson 1: Backup Plans on a MongoDB Server

• MongoDB Backup Methods

Lesson 2: Filesystem Snapshots on a MongoDB Server

• Snapshots Overview
• Snapshot Considerations

Lesson 3: Filesystem Snapshot Volumes on a MongoDB Server

• Back Up and Restore Using LVM on Linux

Lesson 4: Filesystem Archives on a MongoDB Server

Lesson 5: Backing Up a MongoDB Deployment

• mongodump

Lesson 6: Restoring a MongoDB Deployment

• mongorestore