10gen Announces MongoDB Backup Service

10gen
Inc., the MongoDB company, announced the limited release of
MongoDB
Backup Service, the way to backup and restore MongoDB.

Organizations of all sizes can protect
their data with a monthly pay-as-you-go service.

MongoDB Backup Service joins the free,
cloud-based MongoDB Monitoring Service, which has more than 17,000
users.

"The Backup Service solves a
critical problem for ops teams and developers. It is challenging to
build backup systems that are reliable and robust, and moving data
between environments for testing and other data workflows is
something developers shouldn’t have to build themselves,"
said Eliot Horowitz, CTO at 10gen. "The Backup Service is a
key step for us as we continue to build out a full management suite
for MongoDB systems of all sizes in the cloud and for on-premise
environments."

"Big data
projects are notoriously difficult to backup because data volumes
change quickly and unpredictably," said Carl Olofson,
research VP for database management and data integration software, IDC. "For instance, it is easy to miscalculate required
storage for the life of your project and to find yourself falling
short or overpaying for excess capacity. A cloud-based backup service
such as that offered by 10gen makes the management and cost of backup
operations simple and predictable."

"Having a backup service
engineered for MongoDB has a lot of advantages," said
Arkadiy Kukarkin, software architect at The
Hype Machine Inc., a Brooklyn-based company focused on the easy
analysis, consumption and discovery of popular music. "MongoDB
Backup Service gives us smooth integration with MMS monitoring, as
well as excellent granularity of restorable snapshots with little
overhead."

MongoDB Backup service
include:

• Data Security – Data transfer is
  SSL encrypted, and two-factor authentication is required for all
  restores.

• HA – Backups are archived in
  multiple, fault-tolerant, geographically dispersed data centers.

• Point-in-Time Recovery – Users
  can restore their systems to any point-in-time.

• Shared Cluster Support – Backup
  and restore is provided to a point-in-time across all shards, from a
  single server to hundreds of servers.

• Managed Solution – The backup
  service eliminates the need for custom backup monitoring, scripts and
  storage. Support team to monitor the system and alert user if
  problems arise.

• Low Overhead – Users install an
  agent in minutes and begin backing up immediately. The impact is less
  than that of adding another secondary.

• Unlimited Restores – Restores
  can be used to seed secondary nodes, populate a Dev/QA environment,
  send data to others without impacting the production environment and
  more.

MongoDB Backup Service supports monthly
automatic payment via credit card

Users can reserve their spot in the
limited release by signing on
the website. Availability is expected later this year.