backups for mongodb cluster

Owned by
Gabe Castillo
Nov 06, 2018
1 min read

This article outlines how data stored in the mongodb cluster is backed up

Step-by-step guide

  1. cronjobs on the database hosts(siomongo1,2,3) are dumped hourly to disk in /data/mongodumps
  2. These dumps are then backed up using BackupPC to scrippsbackup.ucsd.edu