Greetings! We are running neo4j using docker in a production environment. We are deriving our own neo4j docker image that encapsulates the plug-ins we are using. We need to have a backup process using neo4j-admin backup that runs from inside the container on a regular time interval as a cron job. I…

This post discusses the topic right here: [image] Scheduling Neo4j Backups while running in Kubernetes Aura & Cloud I was talking to a customer about this topic earlier today and realized we hadn't written anything up on this, and thought I'd drop a short post here for fo…

The simplest cron solution (but not the most elegant) is to actually use cron inside of a container. You can write a shell script to deploy the backup container, and then make a very tiny extra container to run cron like this: https://www.ekito.fr/people/run-a-cron-job-with-docker/ Within most ma…

Greetings! We are using rancher in the case of the current production installation it's rancher 1.6, for new ones we are moving to rancher 2 which is kunernetes based. I had looked at the scripting docker container approach - but it seems fragile and inelegant, so was seeking an alternative...

[image] mmorley: I had looked at the scripting docker container approach - but it seems fragile and inelegant, so was seeking an alternative... I wonder if you have found some solution for that ?

One way I thought of doign this is cron job from outside container. This works as long as the container name doesn't change: docker exec CONTAINER NAME --backup-dir=/var/lib/neo4j/backups --name=graph.db-backup --check-consistency=true

That approach will certainly work. In the Kubernetes world there's also this: [image] CronJob FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.21 [stable] A CronJob creates Jobs on a repeating schedule. CronJob is meant for performing regular scheduled actions such as backups, report generation, and so on…

UPDATE - this is now almost 2 years later - but the neo4j-helm backup container has built-in job scheduling. See the jobSchedule argument here: [image] Backing up Neo4j Containers - Neo4j-Helm User Guide

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markrity (Mark Davydov) October 19, 2018, 6:51pm 5

I wonder if you have found some solution for that ?

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