Dumps a mongodb database from a docker data container / restores a mongodb database dump to a docker data container.

docker-mongodump

#!/bin/bash

# Run like so:
# docker-mongodump <mongo container name> <path to backups>

MONGO_CONTAINER=$1
BACKUPS_PATH=$2
DAY=`/bin/date +%Y%m%d`
PAST_DAY=`/bin/date -d '3 days ago' +%Y%m%d`

# make the backups and tar
cd $BACKUPS_PATH
docker exec $MONGO_CONTAINER mongodump --out /dump
docker cp $MONGO_CONTAINER:/dump ./
tar zcf $BACKUPS_PATH/dump.$DAY.tar.gz ./dump

# remove raw dump and backups older than 2 days
rm -rf ./dump
rm ./dump.$PAST_DAY.tar.gz

docker-mongorestore

#!/bin/bash

# use like so 
echo "docker-mongorestore <container> <path to dump on host> <dump destination in container> [--drop]"

MONGO_CONTAINER=$1
MONGO_DUMP_HOST_PATH=$2
MONGO_DUMP_PATH=$3
DROP=$4

docker cp $MONGO_DUMP_HOST_PATH $MONGO_CONTAINER:$MONGO_DUMP_PATH
docker exec $MONGO_CONTAINER mongorestore $MONGO_DUMP_PATH $DROP
docker exec $MONGO_CONTAINER rm -rf $MONGO_DUMP_PATH