How To Set Up Scheduled MongoDB Backups to DigitalOcean Spaces | DigitalOcean
Regular database backups are a crucial step in guarding against unintended data loss events. In general, there are two broad categories of backups: filesystem-level ("physical") backups and logical backups. Filesystem-level backups involve snapshotting the underlying data files at a point in time, and allowing the database to cleanly recover using the state captured in the snapshotted files.
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