MongoDB S3 Backup Docker image

Docker image that performs periodic backups on a MongoDB database and then uploads the results to Amazon S3.

Based on the dbader/schedule Python scheduling package.

Configuration

The following table describes the available configuration environment variables.

Name	Description	Default
MONGO_HOST	MongoDB instance hostname	Required
MONGO_DB	MongoDB database name	Required
S3_BUCKET	Amazon S3 bucket name	Required
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID	Amazon AWS access key	Required
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY	Amazon AWS secret	Required
BACKUP_INTERVAL	Interval between each backup (days)	1
BACKUP_TIME	Hour of the day at which the backup will be executed	2:00
DATE_FORMAT	Date format string used as the suffix of the backup filename	%Y%m%d-%H%M%S
FILE_PREFIX	Prefix of the backup filename	backup-

Example

The following command starts a mongo-s3-backup container that will stay in the background uploading backups of the testdb database on the my-mongo-host MongoDB instance every day at 2:00. The backups will be uploaded to an S3 bucket named my-s3-bucket:

docker run -d -e MONGO_HOST=my-mongo-host -e MONGO_DB=testdb -e S3_BUCKET=my-s3-bucket -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<your_access_key> -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<your_access_secret> -e BACKUP_INTERVAL=1 --name mongo_backups agmangas/mongo-backup-s3