Backup mongo to s3

storemongo

#!/bin/bash
 
# Dumps the Mongo Database and exports it to S3
# Make sure to run this script in the background! (nohup)

WORKING_DIRECTORY="/mnt/vol-604be929/tmp/data"

if [ ! -d "$WORKING_DIRECTORY" ]; then
    mkdir -p $WORKING_DIRECTORY
fi
cd $WORKING_DIRECTORY

# Force file synchronization and lock writes
#mongo admin --eval "printjson(db.fsyncLock())"

MONGODUMP="/usr/bin/mongodump"
MONGO_HOST="localhost" # replace with server IP
MONGO_PORT="27017"     # replace with server port

# Other settings
TIMESTAMP=`date +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S`
S3_BUCKET="cobrainabsolem"
S3_PATH="datadumps/kerkes"
LOG_PATH="/mnt/vol-604be929/mongodb/logs/mongodump.log"
DUMP_NAME="mongodb-$HOSTNAME-$TIMESTAMP.dump"

# Create the backup
$MONGODUMP --host $MONGO_HOST --port $MONGO_PORT 2>&1 >> $LOG_PATH

# Add timestamp to backup
mv dump $DUMP_NAME
tar czf $DUMP_NAME.tgz $DUMP_NAME

# Upload to s3
aws s3 mv $DUMP_NAME.tgz s3://$S3_BUCKET/$S3_PATH/$DUMP_NAME.tgz

# Delete the old backup
rm -rf $DUMP_NAME

Hi, thanks for the script, may I ask you how dump is defined ?? (l31).