studionone/rethinkdb-backups repository overview

⁠rethinkdb-backups

The Dockerfile on this folder creates a very lightweight image to create and automate RethinkDB backups to S3 buckets. Intended to be ran as a command and scheduled by using some sort of cron, it will naturally die after completion.Don't expect the container to stay up and running.

It basically runs rethinkdb dump -c $RETHINK_HOST:28015, so there is only 1 environment variable you need to setup for that to work, RETHINK_HOST, which is the rethink host.

The second part of the script is the backup upload to the assigned S3 bucket. For this you will need 3 environment variables, BUCKET, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.

Be sure to have network access to the rethink cluster from wherever you are running the image, otherwise it will fail.