Hi, On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Marcel Reutegger <[email protected]> wrote: > the MongoDB management service (MMS) mentioned by Jukka is one > option, but I think we should also have a backup mechanism that works > without a third party dependency.
Right, as a cloud service MMS is probably not appropriate for all deployments. > the other methods discussed in the MongoDB documentation [0] do not > guarantee consistent backups in a sharded cluster, but I wonder if we > can make use of the oplog. Instead of trying to solve that problem at MongoDB level, I suggest we simply use the Oak-level backup code that we already have. It guarantees a consistent snapshot of the running repository, is non-blocking, and can do incremental backups. BR, Jukka Zitting
