mongo-backup

Automated backups for MongoDB containers

This Docker image runs mongodump to backup data to folder /backup. The image uses backup Ruby gem to create backups and rufus-scheduler gem for scheduling.

Backup interval

Backup interval can be set by INTERVAL environment variable. Value can be:

• number of seconds: 30
• minutes: 1m
• hours: 1h
• days: 1d
• cron format: 0 22 * * *

Storages

You can store your backup:

• Amazon S3
• Dropbox
• RSync
• SFTP

Notifiers

Notifiers are used to send notifications upon successful and/or failed completion of your backup

Supported notification services include:

• Slack
• Flowdock
• Email
• DataDog
• Pagerduty

Example: Backup to S3 every day

export MONGO_BUCKET=<Your S3 bucket name>
export SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL=<Your Slack webhook url>
export MONGO_CONTAINER=<Your MongoDB container name>
docker run --name mongo-backup \
  --link $MONGO_CONTAINER:mongo \
  -e MONGODB_HOST=mongo \
  -e INTERVAL=1d \
  -e S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<YOUR AWS ACCESS KEY> \
  -e S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<YOUR AWS ACCESS KEY> \
  -e S3_REGION=eu-west-1 \
  -e S3_BUCKET=$MONGO_BUCKET \
  -e S3_PATH=backups \
  -e SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL=$SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL \
  -e SLACK_NOTIFY_ON_FAILURE=true \
  -e SLACK_NOTIFY_ON_WARNING=true \
  --restart=always \
  -d kontena/mongo-backup