This chapter covers backup decisions related to topology design. We look at MongoDB’s own enterprise tools for performing point-in-time restores of sharded clusters, to using scripts to snapshot geographically distributed clusters and retaining backup data in the same country of origin to comply with GDPR.
Goals
What are the primary motivations for taking backups? The following are some of the most commons real-world uses of backups:
Roll back a change made due to developer error. This is might be an application error that was missed in testing and which started corrupting data ...
