backup-couchdb-to-s3
Backup your CouchDB database files to Amazon's S3 service.
npm install -g backup-couchdb-to-s3
Usage
Install the module, and edit the config.json file:
{
"dbUrl": "http://localhost:5984",
"dbName": "the name of your database",
"s3BucketName": "your S3 bucket",
"awsCredentialsPath": ".aws/credentials"
}
Then from the prompt:
npm start
Or from the command line:
backup-couchdb-to-s3 --dbUrl http://localhost:5984 --dbName your-database --s3BucketName your-s3-bucket --awsCredentialsPath /path/to/.aws/credentials
This will save your local database-name.couch
file to your S3 bucket. Put the above command into a run.sh
file and call it from a cronjob for regular backups.
AWS credentials
As this is an early version of backup-couchdb-to-s3, it doesn't support many configuration options. Right now, you'll need to create an AWS credentials file, like so:
[default]
aws_access_key_id = <access-key>
aws_secret_access_key = <secret-access-key>
Setting up S3
Setting up Amazon's S3 will be the most complicated part of running this script, and might take around 15 minutes if you're not familiar with the process. Amazon's walkthrough is here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/example-walkthroughs-managing-access-example1.html
Turn on S3 versioning
Turning on versioning in your S3 bucket is recommended, as backup-couchdb-to-s3 writes to the same file each time.
License
BSD.