Configuring MMS Backup service

MMS Backup is a relatively new offering by MongoDB for real-time incremental backup of your MongoDB instances, replica sets, and shards, and offers you point in time recovery of your instances. The service is available as on-premise (in your data center) or cloud. However, we will demonstrate the on-cloud service that is the only option for the Community and Basic subscription. For more details on the available options, you can visit different product offerings by MongoDB at https://www.mongodb.com/products/subscriptions.

Getting ready

Mongo MMS Backup service will work only on Mongo 2.0 and above. We will start a single server that we will backup. MMS backup relies on the oplog for continuous backup and since oplog is available only in replica sets, the server needs to be started as a replica set. Refer to the recipe Connecting to a single node using a Python client in Chapter 1, Installing and Starting the Server to learn more about how to install Python and...