# Introduction This project provides Docker images to periodically back up a PostgreSQL database to AWS S3, and to restore from the backup as needed. # Usage ## Backup ```yaml postgres: image: postgres:13 environment: POSTGRES_USER: user POSTGRES_PASSWORD: password pg_backup_s3: image: eeshugerman/postgres-backup-s3:13 environment: SCHEDULE: '@weekly' PASSPHRASE: passphrase S3_REGION: region S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID: key S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: secret S3_BUCKET: my-bucket S3_PREFIX: backup POSTGRES_HOST: postgres POSTGRES_DATABASE: dbname POSTGRES_USER: user POSTGRES_PASSWORD: password ``` - Images are tagged by the major PostgreSQL version they support: `9`, `10`, `11`, `12`, or `13`. - The `SCHEDULE` variable determines backup frequency. See go-cron schedules documentation [here](http://godoc.org/github.com/robfig/cron#hdr-Predefined_schedules). Omit to run the backup immediately and then exit. - If `PASSPHRASE` is provided, the backup will be encrypted using GPG. - Run `docker exec <container name> sh backup.sh` to trigger a backup ad-hoc ## Restore > **WARNING:** DATA LOSS! All database objects will be dropped and re-created. ### ... from latest backup ```sh docker exec <container name> sh restore.sh ``` > **NOTE:** If your bucket has more than a 1000 files, the latest may not be restored -- only one S3 `ls` command is used ### ... from specific backup ```sh docker exec <container name> sh restore.sh <timestamp> ``` # Acknowledgements This project is a fork and re-structuring of @schickling's [postgres-backup-s3](https://github.com/schickling/dockerfiles/tree/master/postgres-backup-s3) and [postgres-restore-s3](https://github.com/schickling/dockerfiles/tree/master/postgres-restore-s3). ## Fork goals - [x] dedicated repository - [x] automated builds - [x] support multiple PostgreSQL versions - [x] backup and restore with one image - [x] support encrypted (password-protected) backups - [x] option to restore from specific backup by timestamp ## Other changes - uses `pg_dump`'s `custom` format (see [docs](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/app-pgdump.html)) - doesn't use Python 2 - backup blobs and all schemas by default - drop and re-create all database objects on restore - some env vars renamed or removed - filter backups on S3 by database name