mongolvmbackup | Snapshot & Backup MongoDB using LVM | Continuous Backup library

mongolvmbackup is a Shell library typically used in Backup Recovery, Continuous Backup applications. mongolvmbackup has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

this tool is not maintained anymore. use at your own risk. other forks of this code might be more useful. a tool for backing up your mongodb datasets with almost no downtime. it accomplishes this mongodb’s fsync* commands and lvm snapshotting (so requires your db volume be created in lvm!). features: * roughly follows suggestions made in the [mongodb] [docs] * lock mongodb only briefly while the snapshot is being created. usually this takes only a couple of seconds; after that it’s business as usual. * a symlink to the latest backup is created to aid with restores and help other scripts find your data to send it offsite. * compress with gzip by default; other algorithms are supported * remove compressed backups older than n days * works with shards if you run a mongolvmbackup for each shard, but results [may not be consistent] warning: mongolvmbackup is to be used entirely at your own risk. that said it’s believed to be safe and we use it on production hosts.