- Jan 29, 2023 — [Backing up DigitalOcean MongoDB to Dropbox](/2023/01/29/backing-up-digital-ocean-mongodb-to-dropbox.html)

After migrating my apps to DigitalOcean apps I started looking for a MongoDB automated offsite backup solution. DO backs up all MongoDB daily automatically, but I am paranoid, a...

- Jan 20, 2020 — [Restoring Data into a MongoDB Dokku Container](/2020/01/20/mongorestoring-data-into-dokku-mongodb.html)

I’ve been running a pet project using Dokku on DigitalOcean for a number of years with MongoDB, backing up data into Dropbox. See Running Slack Bots on DigitalOcean with Dokku a...

- Feb 15, 2016 — [Backing up MongoDB Databases in Dokku Containers to Dropbox](/2016/02/15/backing-up-mongodb-databases-in-dokku-containers-to-dropbox.html)

I’ve recently moved my Slack bots to Dokku running on DigitalOcean. The bots use local MongoDB database containers provided by the dokku-mongo plugin. Here’s the entire setup, f...

- Mar 31, 2011 — [Setting up Cron to run Rake Tasks](/2011/03/31/setting-up-cron-to-run-rake-tasks.html)

- Mar 31, 2011 — [A Rake Task for Backing Up a MongoDB Database](/2011/03/31/a-rake-task-for-backing-up-a-mongodb-database.html)

It’s time to connect MongoDB with S3 and write a task that backs up a MongoDB database to Amazon S3. This follows a series of articles, so before you read this you might want to...