pygmalios / mongodb-s3-backup

Docker image to backup MongoDB 2.6.11 to S3 using mongodump.

MongoDB 3.4 S3 docker backup

Docker image to backup MongoDB 3.4 to S3 using mongodump.

Backup

Launch mongodbs3backup container with the following flags:

$ docker run --rm \
--env-file env.txt \
--name mongodbs3backup pygmalios/mongodb-s3-backup:3.0

The contents of env.txt being:

MONGO_HOST=mongodb:27017
MONGO_DATABASE=<database_name_here>
MONGO_USER=<username_here>
MONGO_PASSWORD=<password_here>

MONGO_DATABASE=<database_name_here>
MONGO_URI=<mongo uri>

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<key_here>
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<secret_here>
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1
BACKUP_NAME=mongo
S3_BUCKET_NAME=mongo-backups.example.com

mongodbs3backup will dump mongo database using mongodump and provided credentials. Resulting backup will be tarballed, gzipped, time-stamped, prefixed with BACKUP_NAME and uploaded to the existing S3 bucket.

Periodic backup in Docker Cloud

You can use tutum-cron (Docker image) to run container on schedule.