couchtool

couchtool is a simple backup/restore tool for Apache CouchDB and databases compatible with its API. The on disk format used is one file per document/attachment. This was chosen so that the backups are easily rsnapshot-able, without making a full copy on each snapshot.

Installation

npm install -g couchtool

Usage

Show database info:

# Print db size and document count
couchtool dump http://localhost:5984/some_db

Create backup:

# Dump all documents in ./some_db/ directory
couchtool dump http://localhost:5984/some_db

Restore from backup:

# Read and soreall documents from ./some_db/ directory
couchtool restore http://localhost:5984/some_db

By default the the docs will be split in 10 directories docs.0/ to docs.9/. If you want to change the number of directories you can use --buckets :

# Split documents in 100 directories
couchtool --buckets 100 restore http://localhost:5984/some_db

You can use the buckets command to find appropriate bucket number for large databases:

# Show number of documents in each bucket
couchtool buckets http://localhost:5984/some_db

Also the documents can be stored gziped on disk with --gzip :

# Gzip documents and attachments on disk
couchtool --gzip restore http://localhost:5984/some_db

Source code

https://github.com/zaro/couchtool

Todo

• Support couchapps
• Connect to CouchDB over SSH