Taking MOngodb Backup
https://github.com/xpressabhi/mup-data-backup Backup Take backup of running app data from docker then copy to local folder out of docker. docker exec -it mongodb mongodump --archive=/root/mongodump.gz --gzip docker cp mongodb:/root/mongodump.gz mongodump_$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S).gz Copy backup to server Move data to another server/local machine or a backup location scp /path/to/dumpfile root@serverip:/path/to/backup