Mongodb to Amazon s3 Backup Script

Requirements

• Running mongod process
• mongodump
• mongo
• (configured)s3cmd
• tar
• rm
• curl

Usage

bash /path/to/backup.sh -u MONGODB_USER -p MONGODB_PASSWORD -o MONGODB_HOST -b S3_BUCKET

Cron

Daily

Add the following line to /etc/cron.d/db-backup to run the script every day at midnight (UTC time)

0 0 * * * root /bin/bash /path/to/backup.sh -u MONGODB_USER -p MONGODB_PASSWORD -o MONGODB_HOST -b S3_BUCKET`