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mongodb-backup

Docker Pulls

mongodb-backup is a simple MongoDB backup automation tool built with Go. It can be run locally, as a cron job or within a k8s cluster.

Features

  • dump mongodb to backup archive
  • upload to gcloud storage

Install

mongodb-backup is available on Docker Hub at sandburg2011/mongodb-backup.

Supported tags:

  • sandburg2011/mongodb-backup:latest latest stable release

Configuration

mongodb-backup is configurable via environment variables. supported variables are:

ENV_NAME Description Default
GCS_BUCKET the bucketname to upload to -
GCS_KEY_FILE_PATH path to the GCS credential file -
MONGODB_HOST host of the database to backup localhost
MONGODB_PORT port of the database to backup 27017
MONGODB_USER username credential for database -
MONGODB_PASSWORD password credential for database -
MAX_BACKUP_ITEMS maximum backup archives, deletes older 10
BACKUP_DIR directory where the archive is beeing saved to /tmp

Run

docker run -d --env-file ./.env sandburg2011/mongodb-backup
docker exec -it CONTAINER_ID ./backup

Restore

To restore the data you can download the archive file from the bucket and use mongorestore. In this example a file named backup.gz gets restored.

mongorestore --gzip --archive=backup.gz --drop

If you want to restore just a specific database, use the nsInclude argument.

mongorestore --gzip --archive=backup.gz --nsInclude="DATABASE_NAME.*" --drop

Examples

Kubernetes Cron

Example for kubernetes Cron to backup the databse every hour and keep backups for one day.

apiVersion: batch/v1beta1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: backup-db
  namespace: graphql
spec:
  schedule: "0 */1 * * *"
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          volumes:
          - name: google-credentials
            secret:
              secretName: backup-service-credentials
          containers:
          - name: backup-db
            image: 'sandburg2011/mongodb-backup'
            args:
            - /backup
            volumeMounts:
            - name: google-credentials
              mountPath: /var/secrets/certs
            env:
            - name: GCS_BUCKET
              value: "backup_db"
            - name: GCS_KEY_FILE_PATH
              value: "/var/secrets/certs/credentials.json"
            - name: MONGODB_HOST
              value: "mongodb-client"
            - name: MONGODB_PORT
              value: "27017"
            - name: MAX_BACKUP_ITEMS
              value: "24"
          restartPolicy: OnFailure