Nov. 9, 2022, 4:13 p.m. | Redouane Achouri

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Schedule and automate database backups from your Kubernetes cluster to AWS S3

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If you are running a self-hosted database such as MongoDB, chances are you don’t have the benefit of automated backups offered by managed services.

This article is about how to use Kubernetes CronJobs to schedule automated backup jobs for MongoDB on a Kubernetes cluster, and storing these backups in an AWS S3 bucket.

Backup jobs are scheduled periodically to …

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