mongo-backup-to-s3

stream mongodb backups to S3, with ease

Usage no npm install needed!

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README

Mongo Backup to S3

Easily stream mongodb backups to S3

NPM Version

Motivation

Explore an inexpensive way to backup your MongoDb databases

Get Started

Setup an S3 bucket, run this in a cron job using a Heroku Single Dyno (worker)

Install

npm install mongo-backup-to-s3

Example:

var mongoBackup = require('mongo-backup-to-s3');

var config = {
    mongodb:{
        url: process.env.MONGO_URL
    },
    s3:{
        bucket:'mybucket',
        folder:'backups',
        key: process.env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY,
        secret: process.env.AWS_SECRET_KEY
    }
};

mongoBackup.dumpToS3(config);

Generated filename in S3: backups/mongo_2015-12-30_22-16-34_mydatabase.dmp

Dependent modules

This module relies heavily on mongo-dump-stream so it can output the 'dump' to a stream, and so we don't have to use mongodump (which requires a child process).