Data Backup and Restore

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Schedule weekly MongoDB backups

A cron job has been setup to take backup for MongoDB which runs at midnight every Sunday.

In order to list the cronjobs on staging and production environments:

• ssh to the box
• crontab -l -- list jobs
• crontab -e -- Edit job

Taking a backup manually on demand

Run the following command to create backup

oclapi/django-nonrel/ocl/deploy/mongo_backup.sh

Backups are timestamped tar files stored under /home/root/backups.

Restoring from backup

In order to restore data from a backup

1. SSH into the environment
2. Run ~/oclapi/django-nonrel/ocl/deploy/mongo_restore <backup_file_location>
3. Rebuild Solr index using:

yes | docker exec -i ocl_api python manage.py rebuild_index -k 5