Quick n' dirty shell script to back up a Cloudant database to a new, uniquely-named Cloudant DB.

backup_cloudant_db.sh

#!/bin/sh

CLOUDANT_USER="myusername"
CLOUDANT_PASS="mypassword"
CLOUDANT_DB="mydb"

DATE=`date +"%Y-%m-%d\$%H.%M"`
BACKUP_NAME="${CLOUDANT_DB}_backup_${DATE}"

echo "Creating database named ${BACKUP_NAME}"

# First, create the database
curl -X PUT "http://${CLOUDANT_USER}:${CLOUDANT_PASS}@${CLOUDANT_USER}.cloudant.com/${BACKUP_NAME}" -g

echo "Starting replication..."

# Next, tell the replicator to copy the source database to the new backup database
curl -X POST "http://${CLOUDANT_USER}:${CLOUDANT_PASS}@${CLOUDANT_USER}.cloudant.com/_replicate" -d '{"source":"http://'${CLOUDANT_USER}':'${CLOUDANT_PASS}'@${CLOUDANT_USER}.cloudant.com/'${CLOUDANT_DB}'","target":"http://'${CLOUDANT_USER}':'${CLOUDANT_PASS}'@'${CLOUDANT_USER}'.cloudant.com/'${BACKUP_NAME}'"}' -H "Content-type: application/json" -g 

echo "All done."

Nice one, cheers!

Thanks! Just made a quick edit to fix an issue I ran into today.

Hmm, I wonder what this is used for... ;)

Here's a gem to do this easily with ruby: cloudant-backup