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Discussion on: Setting up a MongoDB backup on Google Drive

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i used to do a similar thing. was taking hourly dumps of my db. then one day my dedicated server just wouldn't boot up and i lost an hours worth of data. ever since then i use replication instead of dumps. i have a $2.50 p/m vps on vultr for the secondary. never looking back :-)