Set up a python approach to backing up the database instead of a cron job

chat_application/datasetHandler.py

@@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ class datasetHandler():
 
   def make_dump(self):
     try:
-      os.system(f"mongodump --db {self.DB_name} --out {/tmp/mongoDBContents}")
+      os.system(f"mongodump --db {self.DB_name} --out /tmp/mongoDBContents")
       return 0
     except Exception as e:
       print(e)
       return 1
-    
+
   def upload_dump(self):
     try:
       upload_folder(folder_path="/tmp/mongoDbContents",path_in_repo="mongoDump", repo_id="ProjectFrozone/MongoDBDumps", repo_type="dataset")
@@ -25,3 +25,7 @@ class datasetHandler():
     except Exception as e:
       print(e)
       return 1
+
+  def dump_db(self):
+    make_dump()
+    upload_dump()

chat_application/main.py

@@ -399,6 +399,14 @@ def ask_bot_round(room_id):
         # All bots passed - reprompt
         print("All bots passed. Re-prompting for responses.\n")
         time.sleep(2)  # prevents CPU thrashing & spamming
+ 
+#background task which executes every two minutes to backup database to dataset
+def backup_mongo(time):
+    while (True):
+        token = os.getenv("HF_TOKEN")
+        handler = dataset_handler(token , 'huggingFaceData')
+        handler.dump_db()
+        socketio.sleep(time)
 
 # Build the routes
 #disabled landing
@@ -587,6 +595,8 @@ def handle_connect():
     socketio.start_background_task(send_bot_joined, room, room_doc['HotBot_name'], 13)
     # Start background task to send the initial watermelon post after a short delay
     socketio.start_background_task(send_initial_post, room, 10)
+    # Start the background backup dataset task
+    socketio.start_background_task(backup_mongo , 120)
     rooms_collection.update_one(
         {"_id": room},
         {"$set": {"initialPostsSent": True}}