What backup frequency does Cohesity recommend for MongoDB log backups?

Cohesity recommends 10-minute intervals for log backups, which aligns with MongoDB best practices. The first backup is a full backup, and all subsequent backups are incremental only.

Can I recover a MongoDB cluster to a different target environment?

Yes, the integration supports recovering a protected cluster to the same or different target cluster. This enables use cases like disaster recovery, evaluating performance improvements on new hardware, increasing redundancy, or testing upgrades without impacting production.

MongoDB Data Protection with Cohesity Ops Manager

Name: MongoDB Data Protection with Cohesity Ops Manager
Uploaded: 2026-03-12T15:39:29-04:00
Duration: 5 min 59 s
Description: TL;DR Cohesity's MongoDB integration uses an API-based method to provide enhanced backup and recovery performance with parallel data streams processing billions of objects simultaneously The solution supports automatic protection of all replica sets i...

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Cohesity's MongoDB integration uses an API-based method to provide enhanced backup and recovery performance with parallel data streams processing billions of objects simultaneously
The solution supports automatic protection of all replica sets in Ops Manager with configurable policies including periodic full backups and 10-minute log backup intervals
Recovery options include point-in-time restoration and flexible target selection, enabling disaster recovery, hardware migration, and production testing scenarios without impacting live environments

Summary

This technical demonstration showcases Cohesity's integration with MongoDB through Ops Manager, highlighting an API-based approach to database protection. The walkthrough covers the configuration of protection policies with periodic full backups and 10-minute log backup intervals, both strongly recommended by MongoDB. Key capabilities demonstrated include automatic protection of all replica sets, support for backups from secondary nodes, both sharded and unsharded deployments, and flexible recovery options including point-in-time restoration. The integration emphasizes performance through parallel data streams capable of processing billions of objects simultaneously, while maintaining security through immutable WORM storage, data encryption, and zero-trust principles. The demonstration concludes with a complete backup and recovery workflow, showing how administrators can restore MongoDB clusters either to original locations or new targets for disaster recovery, performance testing, or upgrade validation scenarios.

Chapters

0:00 - Introduction and Integration Overview
1:09 - Protection Policy Configuration
1:45 - Protection Group Settings
3:33 - MongoDB Recovery Workflow
5:18 - Verification and Conclusion

Key Quotes

0:33 "With Coesi's integration, MongoDB will benefit you with greater speeds, with parallel data streams enabling billions of objects to be processed simultaneously ..."
1:33 "Here, we can see periodic full, which is strongly recommended by MongoDB, is set. We have our log backup, which is set to 10 minutes, which is highly recommended."
1:56 "We provide automatic protection of all replica sets in Ops Manager. We support for backups from secondary MongoDB nodes, sharded and uncharted deployments, recovery in place and out of place, log backups, and point-in-time recovery."
5:00 "The integration supports recovering a protected cluster to the same or different target cluster. Some use cases for this could be disaster recovery, evaluating performance improvements by moving to new hardware, increasing redundancy, or testing a new upgrade without impacting production."

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