AWS S3 Simple File Backups w/ NodeJs

This is just a simple nodejs script to allow you make automatic backups in S3. We will use it to backup a mongoDb database.

Requirements

Nodejs
AWS API Credentials

Installation

#1 Clone this repository

$ git clone: https://github.com/minorsolis/s3BackupNodeJS.git
$ cd s3BackupNodeJS

#2 Go inside the app/config folder

$ cd app/config/

#3 Create your own config.js

$ cp -rp config.example.js config.js

#4 Add your credentials and configuration

  aws_key: 'aws_key_here',
  aws_secret: 'aws_secret_here',
  aws_s3_bucket: 'aws_s3_bucket',
  file_path: '/path_to_your_file/'

Optional: extend with bash

The folder includes a cron folder with a bit of bash code, just in case you need to extend this app.

open => cron/script.sh

It will show something like this

echo "Add the bash code here"

echo "..........................."
echo "cd /your_config_file_path/ && mongodump"
echo "tar -cvf dump.tar dump"
echo "..........................."

echo "Finally exec nodejs"
cd ../app/
node index.js

Setup the cron daily (or at anytime)

#1 Set the permissions

$ chmod 775 script.sh

#2 Edit the file cron/setCron.sh

0 1 * * * /{your_path}/cron/script.sh

#3 Setup the cron job

$ crontab setCron.sh