MongoDB Documentation, Release 3.0.4 Backups Additional Resources To make backups of your MongoDB database, please refer to MongoDB Backup Methods Overview (page 184). These document introduce data management practices and strategies for MongoDB deployments, including strategies for managing multi-data center deployments, managing larger file stores, and data lifecycle tools. MongoDB provides a number of features that allow application developers and database administrators to customize the behavior of a sharded cluster or replica set deployment so that MongoDB may be more “data center aware,” or allow operational and location-based separation. MongoDB also supports segregation based on functional parameters, to ensure that certain mongod instances are only used for reporting workloads or that certain high-frequency portions of a sharded collection only exist on specific shards. The following documents, found either in this section or other sections of this manual , provide information on cus- tomizing a deployment for operation- and location-based separation: 207 5.1. Administration Concepts • Blog Post: Capacity Planning and Hardware Provisioning for MongoDB In Ten Minutes 71 • Whitepaper: MongoDB Multi-Data Center Deployments 72 • Whitepaper: Security Architecture 73 • Whitepaper: MongoDB Architecture Guide 74 • Presentation: MongoDB Administration 101 75 • MongoDB Production Readiness Consulting Package 76 5.1.2 Data 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. Data Center Awareness Operational Segregation in MongoDB Deployments (page 208) MongoDB lets you specify that certain application operations use certain mongod instances. Tag Aware Sharding (page 682) Tags associate specific ranges of shard key values with specific shards for use in managing deployment patterns. $^{71}$https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/capacity-planning-and-hardware-provisioning-mongodb-ten-minutes?jmp=docs $^{72}$http://www.mongodb.com/lp/white-paper/multi-dc?jmp=docs $^{73}$https://www.mongodb.com/lp/white-paper/mongodb-security-architecture?jmp=docs $^{74}$https://www.mongodb.com/lp/whitepaper/architecture-guide?jmp=docs $^{75}$http://www.mongodb.com/presentations/webinar-mongodb-administration-101?jmp=docs $^{76}$https://www.mongodb.com/products/consulting?jmp=docs#s_production_readiness