Building an IRC App on MongoDB: Backups, Monitoring and Ops for a Replicated and Sharded Deployment

Eliot Horowitz, CTO/Co-Founder, 10gen

Shaun Verch, Software Engineer, 10gen

December 4 2012

We will explore the various options for backups, go through the rich information available through the monitoring service (MMS), and observe the automated chunk split and automated chunk migration across shards. We will also provoke several failures in the cluster and see how to recover.

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