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		latch on Oct 22, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: We just migrated from SQL Server to MongoD... Worth noting that you can define a slave as hidden:true (so it never gets promoted to master), and run it with slavedelay of X hours..it's a great way to keep a rolling backup

peschkaj on Oct 23, 2011 | [–]

Good to know, I wasn't aware of both of these features. Thanks!

rfurlan on Oct 24, 2011 | [–]

Yes, these are very useful features!

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