Meteor Deployment and Backup

tl;dr

• mup
• backup mongo from docker

Deployment

mup has switched maintainers and seems to be under active development as at 1 Aug 2017.

Backup

mup will install docker and spin up 1 container for mongo and 1 for each meteor app.

The mongodb container gets the host path /var/lib/mongdb/ mounted at /data/db/ and that's where the mongo data lives. However, we can't directly back that up. Instead, run these commands from the host:

docker exec -it mongodb mongodump --archive=/root/mongodump.gz --gzip
docker cp mongodb:/root/mongodump.gz /backup/mongo/mongodump_$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S).gz

That dumps a gzip compressed backup file (of all databases) to /root/mongodump.gz inside the container. Then the second line copies that from the container to /backup/mongo/ on the host. You can automate this from cron, and further automate the backup of your /backup/ folder as well.