MongoDB is one of the most widely used databases out there, and creating backups for it is a crucial, yet routine task not to be taken lightly. This is why we decided to automate the process.
Manual backups are utterly outdated, not to mention this means keeping in mind all the peculiarities and tagging the copies by hand. Automated backup requires using certain libraries that are not present by default, and the DevOps team will most likely learn of this the hard way.