Today’s digital economy demands that next-generation cloud applications be built for scale, developer agility, geo-distributed topologies, always-on availability, mixed data types, and even catastrophic failure. As organizations look to build, deploy, and scale these next-generation customer-centric applications, MongoDB databases are becoming a defacto standard as a database of choice. However, no database should be rolled into production until a reliable and enterprise-grade backup and recovery strategy is in place. While native backup tools like mongodump and OpsManager exist for MongoDB, here are 6 pitfalls to keep in mind as you compare your options.