cron3

Go utility program for day-to-day Mongo backups. Used by countgo.

• General idea:
  • Execute mongodump command
  • Generated .bson file upload to S3
  • Delete files older than 3 days from S3

Install

• Make config.yaml based on config-template.yaml
• file_name is the relative path of the .bson document
• cron_time is the cron expression (eg. 0 30 6 * * * for 6:30 AM)

Usage

Run

• go build
• ./cron3 2>> log &

Run test

• go test -test.v

Import a .bson file into a mongo database

• mongorestore -d aracki -c visitors /path/file.bson

Run mongo in a docker container

• docker run --name mongo --rm -p 27017:27017 mongo:latest