Takes Mongo Backups and Uploads them to S3 from a docker container

mongo_backup.sh

#!/bin/sh

export CONTAINER_NAME="docker-container-name"
export DATABASE_NAME="database-name"
export BACKUP_LOCATION="/home/ec2-user/backups"
export MONGO_USER="mongo authentication user"
export MONGO_PASSWORD="mongo authnetication password"
export TIMESTAMP=$(date +'%Y%m%d%H%M%S')
export DUMP_PATH=/data/${DATABASE_NAME}-backup-${TIMESTAMP}
export ZIP_PATH=${DATABASE_NAME}-backup-${TIMESTAMP}.zip
export S3_BUCKET="s3-bucket"

docker exec -t ${CONTAINER_NAME} mongodump --out ${DUMP_PATH} --db ${DATABASE_NAME} -u ${MONGO_USER} -p ${MONGO_PASSWORD} --authenticationDatabase admin
docker cp ${CONTAINER_NAME}:${DUMP_PATH} ${BACKUP_LOCATION}
zip -r ${ZIP_PATH} ${BACKUP_LOCATION}
docker exec -t ${CONTAINER_NAME} rm -rf ${DUMP_PATH}
aws s3 cp ${ZIP_PATH} s3://${S3_BUCKET}
rm -rf ${BACKUP_LOCATION} ${ZIP_PATH}

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crontab -e

MAILTO=<email>
0 * * * * /home/ec2-user/mongo_backup.sh > /dev/null