Shell script that creates a replication between two databases. The only dependencies are bash and curl.
See CouchDB Replication or Google "couchdb replication" for background.
curl -L -O https://github.com/mgk/couchdb-create-replication/raw/v1.0.0/couchdb-create-replication
chmod +x couchdb-create-replication
couchdb-create-replication [-c] SOURCE TARGET
where:
-c makes replication continous, if not specified the replication is only
done once
SOURCE - source database name (like "foo") or full database URL (like "http://server2:5984/bar")
TARGET - target database name (like "foo") or full database URL (like "http://server2:5984/bar")
Both SOURCE and TARGET must already exist.
By default the replication request is sent to the local server (localhost:5984). Set the SERVER environment variable to use a different server.
A replication is one way: from source to target. To achieve master<->master replication create two replications:
couchdb-create-replication -c mydb http://server:5984/mydb
couchdb-create-replication -c http://server:5984/mydb mydb
Q: Why isn't there an option to automatically create the target DB?
A: Because I think it is easier to do that separately:
curl -X PUT localhost:5984/bar
Q: Why is SERVER an environment variable and not an optional argument?
A: Because I'm almost always doing this against the local server and I am not very good at shell script programming.
Q: How do I list the databases on a server?
A: curl localhost:5984/_all_dbs