Mongo Dump and copy to S3

A simple docker image which uses mongodump and awscli to backup mongo database in s3

Configuring

ENV variables, required for mongodump:

• *AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
• AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
• BACKUP_CRON_SCHEDULE
• MONGO_DB_NAME
• MONGO_HOST
• MONGO_PASS
• MONGO_PORT
• MONGO_USER
• S3_BUCKET

How to run

For one-time dump, run container without passing BACKUP_CRON_SCHEDULE You can user IP like 172.17.0.1 to reference database Run docker network inspect to find database container IP address.

docker run -d --name mongodump \
  -e  "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=aws_key" \
  -e  "AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=aws_region" \
  -e  "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=aws_secret" \
  -e  "BACKUP_CRON_SCHEDULE=** * * * * * **" \
  -e  "MONGO_DB_NAME=mongodatabase" \
  -e  "MONGO_HOST=localhost" \
  -e  "MONGO_PASS=mongo_password" \
  -e  "MONGO_PORT=mongo_port" \
  -e  "MONGO_USER=mongo_user" \
  -e  "S3_BUCKET=s3_bucket_name" \
  public.ecr.aws/o0j8c5i3/codica:mongo-backups

Use BACKUP_CRON_SCHEDULE for setting periodic backup

docker run -d --name mongodump \
  -e "MONGO_HOST=your_container_address" \
  -e "MONGO_PORT=port_of_your_container" \
  -e "MONGO_DB_NAME=name_of_your_db" \
  -e "BACKUP_CRON_SCHEDULE=0 2 0 0 0" \
  -e "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your_aws_access_key" \
  -e "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your_aws_secret_access_key" \
  -e "AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-west-1" \
  -e "S3_BUCKET=your_aws_bucket" \
  public.ecr.aws/o0j8c5i3/codica:mongo-backups

One time backup

docker run -d --name mongodump \
  -e  "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=aws_key" \
  -e  "AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=aws_region" \
  -e  "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=aws_secret" \
  -e  "MONGO_DB_NAME=mongodatabase" \
  -e  "MONGO_HOST=localhost" \
  -e  "MONGO_PASS=mongo_password" \
  -e  "MONGO_PORT=mongo_port" \
  -e  "MONGO_USER=mongo_user" \
  -e  "S3_BUCKET=s3_bucket_name" \
  public.ecr.aws/o0j8c5i3/codica:mongo-backups

License

Mongo dump is Copyright © 2015-2021 Codica. It is released under the MIT License.

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