Steps to backup and restore Minio Buckets

minio_backup_restore_guide.md

Restore Backup with Minio (Minio <----> Local)

Instructions for restoring buckets using Minio mirror features.

Install Minio Client

Install Link install link

Linux AMD64 DEB:

wget https://dl.min.io/client/mc/release/linux-amd64/mcli_20240722200249.0.0_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i mcli_20240722200249.0.0_amd64.deb

Add minio server to minio alias:

mcli alias set myminio/ MINIO_SERVER_URL MINIO_ADMIN_USERNAME MINIO_ADMIN_PASSWORD

Commands:

List all contents of BUCKET_NAME

mcli ls myminio/BUCKET_NAME

Backup to local

mcli mirror myminio/BUCKET_NAME path-to-your-local-backup-folder/BUCKET_NAME --overwrite

Restore from local

mcli mirror path-to-your-local-backup-folder/BUCKET_NAME myminio/BUCKET_NAME --overwrite

Thank you for this ♥️

To anyone coming to this, this works with MinIO's mc utility too

To anyone coming to this, this works with MinIO's mc utility too

Thanks for the info!

To anyone coming to this, this works with MinIO's mc utility too

This saved some minutes of my lifetime lol. Thank you 🙏🏻

To anyone coming to this, this works with MinIO's mc utility too

Just to clarify for other: in the gist, I'm using mcli as a custom alias for MinIO's official command-line tool, which is actually mc.
So if you're following the steps, make sure you've installed MinIO's mc utitily, and either use mc directly or alias it as mcli like I did:

alias mcli='mc'

That way, the commands in the gist will work seamlessly.

Thanks again for the helpful comment! 🙏🏻