Backup and restore mongodb

This is a feature request. It would be nice to run

mup dumpdb path/to/dest/

which would run mongodump on the server, and transfer the generated file into the dest directory.

mup restoredb path/to/dump

which would take the given dump and restore it into the database.

[xpressabhi]

Backup and restore can be achieved via these steps , still having inbuild option in mup will do no harm. https://github.com/xpressabhi/mup-data-backup/

[eric-burel]

Hi everybody,

I am trying to write a plugin to enable daily mongo backup on AWS. You can take a look at the code: https://github.com/lbke/vulcan-mongo-backup Though its not very general (tied to AWS and Vulcan.js) it could be a starting point if your database is colocated with your app.

My current solution consists in running mongodump in a cron job initiated by my app, which means installing mongodump within the Docker container and not directly on the server.

But… I can’t get it to work. Here is my config, for an Ubuntu server, based on those instructions:

    docker: {
      image: "abernix/meteord:node-8.4.0-base",
      // install mongodump to allow programmatic backups
      buildInstructions:[
        'RUN'
        + ' apt-get install -y apt-transport-https libwebsockets-dev libssl-dev openssl libcurl3' // allow to download the key / need for mongo install to work
        + ' && apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 9DA31620334BD75D9DCB49F368818C72E52529D4' 
        + ' && echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/4.0 multiverse" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-4.0.list'
        + ' && apt-get update'
        + ' && apt-get install -y mongodb-org mongodb-org-tools'
      ]
    },

It fails at finding libssl, which seems necessary for the install to work. But the idea is there.

Hope it can help soemhow and someone manages to add a db backup feature to Meteor Up.