dir-backup-s3

Docker image to backup directory to S3 via s3cmd

Motivation

Useful to backup host machine directory or docker volume.

You can run it via crontab or even jenkins (with build periodically).

Usage example

For Amazon S3:

docker run --rm \
  -v $(pwd):/backup
  -e NAME=backup-name \
  -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY=xxx \
  -e AWS_SECRET_KEY=xxx \
  -e S3_PATH=bucket/directory \
  caseycs/dir-backup-s3

For DigitalOcean Spaces:

docker run --rm \
  -v $(pwd):/backup
  -e NAME=backup-name \
  -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY=xxx \
  -e AWS_SECRET_KEY=xxx \
  -e S3_PATH=bucket/directory \
  -e S3CMD_OPTIONS="--host=ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com --host-bucket=%(bucket)s.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com" \
  caseycs/dir-backup-s3

Compression options

You can specify compressor via COMPRESSOR variable, J (xz) is used by default:

z	(De)compress using gzip
J	(De)compress using xz
j	(De)compress using bzip2
a	(De)compress using lzma

You can define gzip compression options via environment variable, for example: -e GZIP=-9