Exports MongoDB to BSON, creates an archive and mails it for backup purposes. Make sure that mailx is installed and in the path.

mongo-backup.sh

#!/bin/sh

# CONFIGURE THIS
outputBase=/Users/crudh/Code/shell-scripts/mongo-backup/test
resultPrefix=system-name
mailSubject="Backup - mongodb"
mailBody="Backup - mongodb"
mailRecipient=christian@primian.se

# DO NOT CHANGE BELOW HERE--------------------------
current=`date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M"`
complete=$outputBase/$resultPrefix-$current
resultFile=$complete.tar.bz2

# Create the folder
mkdir -p $complete 

# Make the backup
mongodump -o $complete >/dev/null 2>&1

# Create the archive file
tar -c --bzip2 -f $resultFile $complete >/dev/null 2>&1

# Remove the folder
rm -rf $complete

# Mail the file
echo "$mailBody" | mailx -s "$mailSubject" -a "$resultFile" $mailRecipient