backup firebase db routinely

[sayanee]

• download a json format every day
• do backup storage rotation to ensure only last 7 days are kept

Implementation:

• http://stackoverflow.com/a/27957431/496797

  curl https://<instance>.firebaseio.com/.json?format=export

Note: Private backups are not part of the free Firebase pricing plan:

[sayanee]

monitoring folder https://github.com/webuildsg/data/tree/gh-pages/backups every week for a 4 weeks 👀

• [ ] 17 July Sunday
• [ ] 24 July Sunday
• [ ] 31 July Sunday
• [ ] 7 August Sunday

[sayanee]

test without the cron job:

curl -X POST --data "secret={SECRET}" https://webuild.sg/api/v1/backups/update

[sayanee]

https://github.com/webuildsg/data/commit/f42357c1f4000c49c60600ef6f8a0a0ea59f2105