Operational Strategies (page 184) Higher level documentation of key concepts for the operation and maintenance of MongoDB deployments. 

MongoDB Backup Methods (page 184) Describes approaches and considerations for backing up a MongoDB database. 

Monitoring for MongoDB (page 187) An overview of monitoring tools, diagnostic strategies, and approaches to monitoring replica sets and sharded clusters. 

Run-time Database Configuration (page 192) Outlines common MongoDB configurations and examples of best-practice configurations for common use cases. 

Continue reading from Operational Strategies (page 184) for additional documentation. 

Data Management (page 207) Core documentation that addresses issues in data management, organization, mainte- nance, and lifecycle management. 

Data Center Awareness (page 207) Presents the MongoDB features that allow application developers and database administrators to configure their deployments to be more data center aware or allow operational and location-based separation. 

Capped Collections (page 209) Capped collections provide a special type of size-constrained collections that preserve insertion order and can support high volume inserts. 

Expire Data from Collections by Setting TTL (page 211) TTL collections make it possible to automatically remove data from a collection based on the value of a timestamp and are useful for managing data like machine generated event data that are only useful for a limited period of time. 

Optimization Strategies for MongoDB (page 213) Techniques for optimizing application performance with Mon- goDB. 

Continue reading from Optimization Strategies for MongoDB (page 213) for additional documentation. 

## 5.1.1 Operational Strategies 

These documents address higher level strategies for common administrative tasks and requirements with respect to MongoDB deployments. 

MongoDB Backup Methods (page 184) Describes approaches and considerations for backing up a MongoDB database. 

Monitoring for MongoDB (page 187) An overview of monitoring tools, diagnostic strategies, and approaches to monitoring replica sets and sharded clusters. 

Run-time Database Configuration (page 192) Outlines common MongoDB configurations and examples of best- practice configurations for common use cases. 

Production Notes (page 197) A collection of notes that describe best practices and considerations for the operations of MongoDB instances and deployments. 

## MongoDB Backup Methods 

When deploying MongoDB in production, you should have a strategy for capturing and restoring backups in the case of data loss events. There are several ways to back up MongoDB clusters: 

• Backup by Copying Underlying Data Files (page 185) 

• Backup a Database with mongodump (page 250) 

• MongoDB Cloud Manager Backup (page 186) 

