Configuring MMS Backup service

MMS Backup is a relatively new offering by MongoDB for real-time incremental backup of your MongoDB instances, replica sets, and shards, and offers you point in time recovery of your instances. The service is available as on-premise (in your data center) or cloud. However, we will demonstrate the on-cloud service that is the only option for the Community and Basic subscription. For more details on the available options, you can visit different product offerings by MongoDB at https://www.mongodb.com/products/subscriptions.

Getting ready

Mongo MMS Backup service will work only on Mongo 2.0 and above. We will start a single server that we will backup. MMS backup relies on the oplog for continuous backup and since oplog ...

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