Automatic MongoDB backup in windows
It's a very good idea to take backups of our MongoDB periodically. We can use the following script to create a folder with current date time and dump the database in it. The script also runs 7zip and compresses the backup directory. When compression is done, this script will delete the backup directory. This will save a lot of disk space. @echo OFF :: This will create a timestamp like yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss. set BACKUPNAME=E:\mongo-db-backup set BACKUPNAME=%BACKUPNAME%\%DATE:~10,4%-%DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~7,2%-%TIME:~0,2%-%TIME:~3,2%-%TIME:~6,2% @echo BACKUPNAME=%BACKUPNAME% :: Create a new directory md "%BACKUPNAME%" echo Running backup "%BACKUPNAME%" mongodump -h localhost -d stipend_icr -u stipend_icr_user -p pr0g0t1 -o "%BACKUPNAME%" REM ZIP the backup directory echo Running 7zip on backup "%BACKUPNAME%" "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -tzip "%BACKUPNAME%.zip" "%BACKUPNAME%" REM Delete the back