Mongodump with timestamp

[Robert Bell - Limeworks]

Hi Everyone,

I want to setup a simple cron to backup my database every day, into a
timestamped directory name.

I have tried something like : mongodump -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD -o /
backupdir/_%Y-%m-%d/

But it just explicitely names the directory.
Is there any way to have this conversion take place?

Sorry if this is a command line question and not a mongodump question.

Thanks,
Rob

[Anthony Ortenzi]

Replace the %Y-%m-%d with `date "+%Y-%m-%d"`

(those are backticks surrounding the date command with the format
specifier you gave)

-Anthony

On Sep 26, 9:32 pm, Robert Bell - Limeworks <r...@limeworks.com.au>
wrote:

[Robert Bell - Limeworks]

Thanks Anthony - i knew it was something simple i was doing wrong.
That worked a treat and a setup a cron to give me regular backups :D

Rob

[Tim Hawkins]

#!/bin/sh

######################################a

# Edit These to define source and destinations

MONGO_DBS=""

BACKUP_TMP=/tmp

BACKUP_DEST=~/backup

######################################

BACKUPFILE_DATE=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M`

# _do_store_archive <Database> <Dump_dir> <Dest_Dir> <Dest_file> 

function _do_store_archive {

mkdir -p $3

        cd $2

        tar -cvzf $3/$4 dump

}

# _do_backup <Database name>

function _do_backup {

UNIQ_DIR="$BACKUP_TMP/$1"`date "+%s"`

        mkdir -p $UNIQ_DIR/dump

        echo "dumping Mongo Database $1"

if [ "all" = "$1" ]; then

mongodump -o $UNIQ_DIR/dump

else

mongodump -d $1 -o $UNIQ_DIR/dump

fi

        KEY="database-$BACKUPFILE_DATE.tgz"

        echo "Archiving Mongo database to $BACKUP_DEST/$1/$KEY"

DEST_DIR=$BACKUP_DEST/$1

        _do_store_archive $1 $UNIQ_DIR $DEST_DIR $KEY

        

rm -rf $UNIQ_DIR

}

# check to see if individual databases have been specified, otherwise backup the whole server

#  to "all" 

if [ "" = "$MONGO_DBS"  ]; then

MONGO_DB="all"

        _do_backup $MONGO_DB

else 

for MONGO_DB in $MONGO_DBS; do

_do_backup $MONGO_DB

done

fi

-- 
Tim Hawkins
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