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9. Administering MongoDB

Shakuntala Gupta Edward and Navin Sabharwal2
(1)
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
(2)
New Delhi, Delhi, India
 
“Administering MongoDB is not like administering traditional RDBMS databases. Although most of the administrative tasks are not required or are done automatically by the system, still there are few tasks that need manual intervention.”
In this chapter, you will go over the process of basic administrative operations for backups and restoration, importing and exporting data, managing the server, and monitoring the database instances.

9.1 Administration Tools

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