What is the easiest to backup a mongoDB deployed with mup? - mongodb

Question

I deployed my app on a Ubuntu server using mup deploy (https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up) with the option "setupMongo": true in the mup.json file.
Everything works fine, and I would like to save the mongoDB database daily to FTP or S3, or to set a mongoDB replica to another server (to avoid copying the whole database every time, but it seems more complicated).

Answer 1

If deployed with mup, you are in luck.
You can find the steps here: https://github.com/xpressabhi/mup-data-backup
Here are the steps again:
MongoDB Data Backup deployed via mup
These commands run well only if meteor deployed with mup tool. Mup creates docker for mongodb hence taking backup becomes easy with these commands.
Backup
Take backup of running app data from docker then copy to local folder out of docker.
docker exec -it mongodb mongodump --archive=/root/mongodump.gz --gzip
docker cp mongodb:/root/mongodump.gz mongodump_$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S).gz
Copy backup to server
Move data to another server/local machine or a backup location
scp /path/to/dumpfile root#serverip:/path/to/backup
Delete old data from meteor deployment
Get into mongo console running in docker then drop current database before getting new data.
docker exec -it mongodb mongo appName
db.runCommand( { dropDatabase: 1 } )
Restore data to meteor docker
docker cp /path/to/dumpfile mongodb:/root/mongodump.gz
docker exec -it mongodb mongorestore --archive=/root/mongodump.gz --gzip

Answer 2

The best way is to mongodump it.
Assuming its running on the mup instance itself since it only listens to 127.0.0.1 you would have to ssh in and use mongodump.
If you simply run it:
mongodump
It will create a directory dump containing your backup.
If you want to do this remotely you would have to edit /etc/mongodb.conf to ensure it binds globally, you will have to create users though since it will be publicly accessible. Then set auth to true.
You could then mongodump from your own machine (you can download the mongodump binary from mongodb.org):
./mongodump --host <your server ip address> --username <username> --password <password>

Answer 3

This answer is inspired by:
sheharyar.me/blog/regular-mongo-backups-using-cron
It uses a script to: mongodump -> tar -> wput (ftp)
First, create a bash script:
#!/bin/bash
MONGO_DATABASE="your_db_name"
APP_NAME="your_app_name"
MONGO_HOST="127.0.0.1"
MONGO_PORT="27017"
TIMESTAMP=`date +%F-%H%M`
MONGODUMP_PATH="/usr/bin/mongodump"
BACKUPS_DIR="/home/username/backups/$APP_NAME"
BACKUP_NAME="$APP_NAME-$TIMESTAMP"
# mongo admin --eval "printjson(db.fsyncLock())"
# $MONGODUMP_PATH -h $MONGO_HOST:$MONGO_PORT -d $MONGO_DATABASE
$MONGODUMP_PATH -d $MONGO_DATABASE
# mongo admin --eval "printjson(db.fsyncUnlock())"
mkdir -p $BACKUPS_DIR
mv dump $BACKUP_NAME
tar -zcvf $BACKUPS_DIR/$BACKUP_NAME.tgz $BACKUP_NAME
rm -rf $BACKUP_NAME
wput $BACKUP_NAME.tgz ftp://login:password#ftp.domain.com/backups/
Save it as mongo_backup.sh and run:
chmod +x mongo_backup.sh
bash mongo_backup.sh
sudo su
crontab -e
And enter this new line:
00 00 * * * /bin/bash /home/username/scripts/mongo_backup.sh
That's it.