Shipwrecked! A MongoDB Data Recovery Tale - Compose ArticlesFree 30 Day Trial It was September 19, International Talk Like a Pirate Day, when a friend-of-a-friend (we'll call him Cap’n Purplebeard) hailed our jolly crew with a tale of woe. The friend-of-a-friend had not been running MongoDB with us, but had been running MongoDB at a budget VPS host. Their database on the budget VPS host had worked fine, until the host had a hardware crash. And as is all
