README.md

BackupService

This is a simple solution to push the contents of a specified folder to respective Minio buckets with similar names.

I used the latest version of Golang (1.18 as of writing this), so you may need to refactor accordingly.

Disclosure

This repo uses some experimental features in Go 1.18. This is the slices package using generics on 1.18. For further info, please refer to https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/exp/slices

Set-up

• Clone this repo

    git clone https://github.com/benzerbett/backupservice

• Install dependencies

      cd backupservice
      go get

• Set up environment variables. The variables are:
  • MINIO_ENDPOINT
  • MINIO_ACCESSKEY
  • MINIO_SECRET
  • BACKUP_FILES_DIR

      nano .env

• To test it locally, simply run the main.go file

   go run main.go

• Build & deploy

   go build -o backupservice

To deploy, you can schedule this as a cron job or otherwise, depending on your environment.

TODO

• Decouple & clean up the string comparisons to match container names. Perhaps a mapping config?
• Better logging (logrus?)
• Refactor to use standard Go library, (remove experimental 1.18 slices feature)