Mongodump Shell Script for Cronjob

mongo_backup.sh

#!/bin/bash
 
MONGO_DATABASE="your_db_name"
APP_NAME="your_app_name"
HOST_NAME="host_name_or_localhost"
USERNAME="username_database"
PASSWORD="password_database"

MONGO_HOST="127.0.0.1"
MONGO_PORT="27017"
TIMESTAMP=`date +%F-%H%M`
MONGODUMP_PATH="/usr/bin/mongodump"
BACKUPS_DIR="backups/$APP_NAME"
BACKUP_NAME="$APP_NAME-$TIMESTAMP"
 
$MONGODUMP_PATH -d $MONGO_DATABASE -h $HOST_NAME -u $USERNAME -p $PASSWORD
 
mkdir -p $BACKUPS_DIR
mv dump $BACKUP_NAME
tar -zcvf $BACKUPS_DIR/$BACKUP_NAME.tgz $BACKUP_NAME
rm -rf $BACKUP_NAME