Backup and Recovery¶

The following tutorials describe backup and restoration for a mongod instance:

Backup and Restore with Filesystem Snapshots: An outline of procedures for creating MongoDB data set backups using system-level file snapshot tool, such as LVM or native storage appliance tools.
Restore a Replica Set from MongoDB Backups: Describes procedure for restoring a replica set from an archived backup such as a mongodump or MMS Backup file.
Back Up and Restore with MongoDB Tools: The procedure for writing the contents of a database to a BSON (i.e. binary) dump file for backing up MongoDB databases.
Backup and Restore Sharded Clusters: Detailed procedures and considerations for backing up sharded clusters and single shards.
Recover Data after an Unexpected Shutdown: Recover data from MongoDB data files that were not properly closed or have an invalid state.