Cron jobs

Upload MongoDB backup to Google drive

• Create a service account on GCP and enable the Drive API in the project. Download key for the service account (format as shown below).

{
  "type": "service_account",
  "project_id": "<PROJECT-ID>",
  "private_key_id": "<PROJECT-KEY-ID>",
  "private_key": "<PRIVATE-KEY>",
  "client_email": "<CLIENT-EMAIL>",
  "client_id": "<CLIENT-ID>",
  "auth_uri": "<AUTH-URI>",
  "token_uri": "<TOKEN-URI>",
  "auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "<AUTH-PROVIDER-CERT-URL>",
  "client_x509_cert_url": "<CLIENT-CERT-URL"
}

Store this in the root of the project as secrets.json. This file is added to .gitignore.

• Create a constants.json file in the root of the project.

{
  "files": [
    {
      "localPath": "<UNIQUE-FILE-NAME-1>.gz",
      "parentDirId": "<PARENT-DIRECTORY-ID-1>",
      "parentDirPath": "A unique identifier. For human to remember which parent folder/directory has the above ID",
      "maxDays": 20,
      "MONGO_URL": "<MONGO-URL-WITH-OR-WITHOUT-DB-AT-END-1>"
    },
    {
      "localPath": "<UNIQUE-FILE-NAME-2>.gz",
      "parentDirId": "<PARENT-DIRECTORY-ID-2>",
      "parentDirPath": "A unique identifier. For human to remember which parent folder/directory has the above ID",
      "maxDays": 30,
      "MONGO_URL": "<MONGO-URL-WITH-OR-WITHOUT-DB-AT-END-2>"
    }
  ]
}

Parent directory ID is the id of the folder in Google-drive in which, we plan to push the mongo backup. Make sure the service account has access to the directory.