Here’s a pet project I’m working on - It is a simple blog engine written in java 8 that uses mongodb as a primary database. I was pretty excited about docker when I heard about it for the first time. Recently, I wrote a small article describing docker essentials - it’s a post showing basic fundamental commands that you can use when working with docker.

Today I’m going to share the scripts I wrote to make and restore backups of a mongodb database. I was surprised that I didn’t find anything similar on google so I hope somebody finds these scripts helpful.

Backup

rm -rf /tmp/mongodump && mkdir /tmp/mongodump
docker run -it --rm --link mongo:mongo -v /tmp/mongodump:/tmp mongo bash -c 'mongodump -v --host $MONGO_PORT_27017_TCP_ADDR:$MONGO_PORT_27017_TCP_PORT --db '$1' --out=/tmp'
tar -cvf $2 -C /tmp/mongodump *
rm -rf /tmp/mongodump

If you name your container something other than mongo, you need to change the link parameter from mongo:mongo to [name]:mongo. Also, if you don’t use the default port (27017), you’ll need to modify the variables $MONGO_PORT_27017_TCP_ADDR and $MONGO_PORT_27017_TCP_PORT.

You can now use it as follows:

./mongo-backup.sh [database_name] ~/backup.tar

Now backup.tar will contain all your collections packed in a tar file.

Restoring

TMP_DIR="/tmp/mongorestore/"
rm -rf $TMP_DIR && mkdir $TMP_DIR
if [[ $1 =~ \.tar$ ]];
then
        #FILENAME=$(echo $1 | sed 's/.*\///')
        FILENAME=$2"/"
        mkdir $TMP_DIR
        echo "Data will be extracted into :"$TMP_DIR
        tar -C $TMP_DIR -xvf $1
else
        FILENAME=$(echo $1 | sed 's/.*\///')
        cp $1 $TMP_DIR$FILENAME
fi

docker run -it --rm --link mongo:mongo -v $TMP_DIR:/tmp mongo bash -c 'mongorestore --drop -v --host $MONGO_PORT_27017_TCP_ADDR:$MONGO_PORT_27017_TCP_PORT --db '$2' /tmp/'$FILENAME
rm -rf $TMP_DIR

This script has two possible modes: tar restoring and collection restoring.

The first mode looks like this:

./mongo-restore.sh ~/backup.tar [database_name]

The second one may look like this:

./mongo-restore.sh ~/users.json [database_name]

If you want to help me improve my scripts, you can send me a pull request to this repository.

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