Automatic DB backups

[colinking]

We can use mongoexport or similar to export the database from the command line. We should set up a script that will do this every day (or more often) and store the data somewhere. Possibly S3?

https://mlab.com/databases/bonvoyage#tools

[seanbae]

MongoLab provides a built-in backup service that either stores the data directly on mLab or custom S3.
A weekly backup service costs $2.00 per month, and a daily backup service costs $15.00 per month.

[colinking]

I would definitely recommend that we do daily backups at least, since losing an entire week's worth of data would be quite hard to recover.

[seanbae]

@choquette33 Thoughts?

[choquette33]

@seanbae - Can we ramp that up as we ramp up? Also is that something I could pay for through heroku?