Backups cannot be imported
jlcastillo opened this issue · 4 comments
There are several problems:
- Backups have a TGZ format, but mongo:import only supports TAR.
- The structure of folders and collections inside the TGZ are wrong, and mongo:import doesn't understand them.
What backups are you talking about? The import subcommands for service plugins are meant to be used in conjunction with the respective export subcommands. In this case, the format we use for exports is not tgz unless I am mistaken.
I'm talking about the backups that you make with mongo:backup. Those cannot be imported with:
dokku mongo:import service < backup_file
they instead need to be imported with something like:
tar zxf backup_file && dokku mongo:import service < backup_file/export
it would make sense to backup with the same format of mongo:export, or at least document how to restore backups.
Yeah I think the documentation route is the way to go here as - iirc - the backups also include configuration files etc., which may not make too much sense to "import".
This issue was moved to dokku/dokku-redis#100