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