Mongodb to Amazon s3 Backup Script

Requirements

• Running mongod process
• mongodump
• mongo
• openssl
• tar
• rm
• curl

Usage

bash /path/to/backup.sh -u MONGODB_USER -p MONGODB_PASSWORD -k AWS_ACCESS_KEY -s AWS_SECRET_KEY -r S3_REGION -b S3_BUCKET

Where S3_REGION is in the format ap-southeast-1

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 -k AWS_ACCESS_KEY -s AWS_SECRET_KEY -b S3_BUCKET