Backup Script for Snap RocketChat

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Hey Peeps,

I couldn’t easily find a script to automate the snap rocketchat backups so I wrote a quick and dirty one. I thought I’d drop it here in case it helps somebody else out. Please feel free to edit and add your improvements. That’s what the community is for. Go Team!

A couple of things:

  1. This assumes the script is being run as root
  2. This script moves everything from the initial location to a statically-named folder. This folder and the filename could easily be scripted to change.
  3. The move command will only occur on a successful completion of the backup command

Script:

#!/bin/bash
#Variables 
backup_destination="/path/to/backup/destination"
backup_location="/path/to/backup/location"

#Start of command section
service snap.rocketchat-server.rocketchat-server stop
    
snap run rocketchat-server.backupdb &&

mv $backup_location/* $backup_destination

service snap.rocketchat-server.rocketchat-server start

#Clean up everything in destination folder older than 7 days
find $backup_destination/* -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;
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I don’t think it is worth using snap command. This one is directly from database directly to where you please:

#!/bin/bash
BackupDestination=/mnt/bkpspace/`hostname`.`dnsdomainname`/RocketChat
if [ ! -d $BackupDestination ] ; then
  mkdir -p $BackupDestination
fi

/snap/rocketchat-server/current/bin/mongodump --archive=$BackupDestination/RC$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S).gz --gzip &> $BackupDestination/RC$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S).log

#Clean up backups older than a week
find $BackupDestination/* -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;
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Thanks! Can this be run while RC is running? You’ll notice that I have to stop the service to perform the backup currently.

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Well, it is only the database backup. You don’t need to stop anything. The database has to guarantee the data integrity.

5

could u give me a backup restore procedure for docker rocket chat? @OlegBarkov

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could u give me a backup restore procedure for docker rocket chat

Your query is about docker, not snap.

You can find plenty of information around about backing up mongo from docker - just have a web search eg