I needed a command line tool to manage CouchDB replication. A quick survey of existing tools at the CouchDB site and on github didn't turn up anything specific to my needs.
So I rolled my own light utility: https://github.com/duncanscott/couch-cli $ couch-cli replicate production --all --target backup --continuous skipping _replicator skipping _users 9878f9de1b814649503331e3b8027825 started continuous pull replication of geneusprod.ws_logger to backup.ws_logger 9878f9de1b814649503331e3b8029c45 started continuous pull replication of geneusprod.samples-submission to backup.samples-submission It's also possible to create backups with a prefix generated by the tool: $ couch-cli backup production --all --target backup --tag weekly skipping _replicator skipping _users 9878f9de1b814649503331e3b802dff5 started pull replication of geneusprod.ws_logger to backup.backup_geneusprod_20140204182434419_weekly_ws_logger 9878f9de1b814649503331e3b8031013 started pull replication of geneusprod.samples-submission to backup.backup_geneusprod_20140204182434562_weekly_samples-submission And then to delete backups with specific tags and/or older than a given number of days. $ couch-cli deleteBackups backup --tag weekly --olderThan 30 Thought it might be of use. You can build the executable using gradle or download an executable from github. Java is needed to run the executable. https://github.com/duncanscott/couch-cli/release<https://github.com/duncanscott/couch-cli/releases/tag/v2.0> Thanks, Duncan P.S. Taking another look at http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/CouchDB_tools, it looks like my application has some functionality similar to that of a new project (which didn't exist when I wrote mine). https://github.com/awilliams/couchdb-utils
