couchdb-backup-restore

Creates backups of couchdb databases (.tar.gz files containing one .json file per database) and restores from those backups.

Also plays nice with Cloudant (hosted CouchDB service).

Limitations

• This library does not support attachments, right now. It will only back up and restore documents. PR's welcome.

• This backs up only the current revision (_rev) of each document; backing up and restoring will loose all previous revisions. (This is normal behavior though - to quote the documentation, You cannot rely on document revisions for any other purpose than concurrency control.)

Install

$ npm install --save couchdb-backup-restore

Usage

var cbr = require('couchdb-backup-restore');

var config = {credentials: 'http://localhost:5984'};

function done(err) {
  if (err) {
    return console.error(err);
  }
  console.log('all done!');
}

// backup
cbr.backup(config, done).pipe(fs.createWriteStream('./db-backup.tar.gz'))
  
// restore
fs.createReadStream('./db-backup.tar.gz').pipe(cbr.restore(config, done));

Bluemix / Cloudant example:

var cbr = require('couchdb-backup-restore');
var bluemix = require('bluemix'); 

var config = {
 credentials: bluemix.getService('cloudantNoSQLDB').credentials
}

// or just var config = bluemix.getService('cloudantNoSQLDB');

Configuring

Default options are:

{
  credentials: 'http://localhost:5984',
  excludeDbs: ['_replicator', '_users'], // automatic built-in dbs that you probably don't want to backup
  databases: null
}

• credentials is passed directly to nano and can be either a straight url or a configuration object.
• excludeDbs should be an array, although it may be an empty array ([]) if you want to include the built-in _replicator and _users databases.
• databases may be an array. If set, CBR will only back up the specified DBs, overriding the excludeDbs option.

License

MIT © Nathan Friedly