Improve cli for managing dumps

[juchom]

Yesterday I tried to upgrade a Meilisearch docker with the actual tooling and I think it needs some improvements.

It was the first time I tried it and the experience was not good. I was expecting it to work a bit like Postgres or SQL Server for exemple.

On my dev machines I use a very basic setup with docker like this :

  meilisearch:
    image: getmeili/meilisearch:${MEILISEARCH_VERSION}
    container_name: meilisearch
    ports:
      - "7700:7700"
    environment:
      - MEILI_NO_ANALYTICS=true

Right now, the only option to do a dump is sending a curl command to the api and to restore a dump is only possible at start-up using the --import-dump flag.

It would be great to improve the CLI with new flags or new commands so we can start our docker image with a basic setup.

And have commands we can run while Meilisearch is running like ms_dump /dumps/ms.dump and restore a dump like ms_restore /dumps/ms.dump.

Postgres has pg_dump and pg_restore

[gmourier]

Hi @juchom! 👋

Thanks for sharing your feedback.

We are considering improving the CLI by integrating commands.