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Divyanshu SoniThis blog was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in April 2025. As a MongoDB user, ensuring your data is safe and secure in the event of a disaster or system failure is crucial. That’s why it’s essential to implement effective MongoDB backup best practices and strategies. Regular database backups are the cornerstone […]
With all the convenience Kubernetes operators provide in managing resources, it can still be a challenge to conveniently store, query, manage, and download the database logs from the pods. Since the pod logs are rotated after a certain period or size depending on the configuration and workload, it’s necessary to collect them to analyze for […]
In this blog post, we will dive deep into WiredTiger’s Logging and Checkpoint mechanism. Every database system has to ensure durability and reliability. MongoDB uses classic Write-Ahead-Logging (WAL) using Journals and Checkpoints. Starting with the basics, why is WAL needed in the first place? It’s to ensure that our data is durable after each write […]
We all know how critical it is to get our data back as soon as possible. To achieve this, as you all might be aware, we have two methods of restore available for MongoDB: logical and physical. Of course, this depends on the type of backup we have configured. For large data sets, it is […]