Mongo-backup

Incremental backup tool for MongoDB

Overview

Mongobackup is an external tool performing full & incremental backup. Backup are stored on the filesystem and compressed using the lz4 algorithm. Full backup are done by performing a file system copy of the dbPath and partial oplog dump is used for incremental backup.

Features

• Full & incremental backup
• Point in Time restore for incremental & full backup
• Backup separation by tag (e.g. daily, monthly, weekly, ...)
• Partial dump of the oplog. Only the operations after the last known one are dumped
• Secure backup by using [fsyncLock & fsyncUnlock] (https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/method/db.fsyncLock/)
• Avoid interacting with the primary node

Usages

Perform an incremental backup

./bin/mongo-backup backup [--username string] [--password string] [--backupdir[--backupdir string] [--tag string] [--nocompress] [--nofsynclock] [--stepdown]

Perform a full backup

./bin/mongo-backup backup -backuptype full [--username string] [--password string] [-backupdir string] [--tag string] [--nocompress] [--nofsynclock] [--stepdown]

Restore a specific backup

./bin/mongo-backup restore --restoredir string --backupid string [--username string] [--password string] [--backupdir string]

Perform a point in time restore

./bin/mongo-backup restore --restoredir string --pit string [--username string] [--password string] [--backupdir string]

Perform a oplog dump

./bin/mongo-backup oplogdump --restoredir string [--username string] [--password string] [--backupdir string]

Delete a range of backup

./bin/mongo-backup delete --tag string --entries string [--backupdir string]

Delete a specific backup

./bin/mongo-backup delete --backupid string [--backupdir string]

List available backups

./bin/mongo-backup list [--tag string] [--entries string] [--backupdir string]

upload backup to s3

./bin/mongo-backup upload --restoredir string --accesskey string --secretkey string --bucketname string [--endpoint string] [--nossl] [--backupid string]

Sample configuration

Scheduling has to be performed using an external tool, e.g. cron Bellow a sample configuration for a daily backup where a full backup is performed twice a week every Sunday, Wednesday and where we stored a daily backup for the last 7 days and backup oplog every 15mins.

0 0 * * 0,3              mongo-backup backup --backupdir /backup --backuptype full --tag daily --username bakuser --password bakpass && mongo-backup delete --backupdir /backup --tag daily --entries '7-' && mongo-backup upload --restoredir string --accesskey string --secretkey string --bucketname string
*/15 * * * *             mongo-backup backup --backupdir /backup --tag daily --username bakuser --password bakpass
10 0 * * * 1,2,4,5,6      mongo-backup upload --restoredir /dbbackup/tmp --accesskey akey --secretkey skey --bucketname bname --backupdir /dbbackup

Releases

The project is in version 0.01 and is currently not yet ready for production. If you are interested and want more information or want to participate, feel free to ping me ;)