Save documents from OpenShift Mongodb

Question

I have a scalable app in OpenShift with MongoDb2.2 ad NodeJs0.10,

Since i can't use Cartridge rockmongo-1.1 because it cannot be embedded in scalable app,

How can i get my db'documents and do a Backup and Restore with ssh ?

Answer 1

Make sure you use the RHC command line tools.

You have two ways to get to your data:

1) You can ssh into your gear (as a shortcut you can do rhc ssh {app-name}). Then you can do the dump and restore at the console. Remember, you only have write permissions to the ~/app-root/data and /tmp directory so make sure to put your output there. Then you can scp your files back and forth.

2) You can you*rhc port forward* to port forward you MongoDB terminal and commands to you local machine. You will still need the MongoDB username and password we assigned to your instance on creation.