mongodb backup script

Question

I need to run mongodump on my database everyday.

How do I automate this reasonably? Every day I want a new folder created with the timestamp and the dump data inside.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Look at

https://github.com/micahwedemeyer/automongobackup

Otherwise use standard tools like cron or shell scripting for wrapping the mongodump call.

Answer 2

I have a super quick handy script. Sometimes I create a cron job for one of my database.

ssh root@hostname "mongodump --db myDatabaseName --out /tmp/mongo-backup ; zip -r /tmp/mongo-backup$(date "+%Y.%m.%d").zip  /tmp/mongo-backup ; rm -rf /tmp/mongo-backup" ;
scp root@hostname:/tmp/mongo-backup$(date "+%Y.%m.%d").zip ./

The above script does two things.

1. Runs the mongodump script and builds a ZIP file like: mongo-backup2017.03.02.zip
2. Downloads that file via SCP to your local machine.