[DOCS-4232] Inbuilt Backup role does not actually allow full backups using mongodump (e.g. system.profile) Created: 24/Oct/14  Updated: 16/Mar/15  Resolved: 23/Jan/15

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: manual
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: v1.3.17

Type: Bug Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Victor Hooi Assignee: Michael Paik
Resolution: Done Votes: 0
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 Description   

Our documentation on in-built roles seems to imply that the backup role is sufficient to allow backups using mongodump:

Provides minimal privileges needed for backing up data. This role provides sufficient privileges to use the MongoDB Management Service (MMS) backup agent, or to use mongodump to back up an entire mongod instance.

However, if you actually try to use mongodump with a user that only has backup, then it may error out on the system.profile collection, if this exists.

This caveat is mentioned on the mongodump documentation page (http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/program/mongodump/), however, I believe it should also be made clear on the in-built roles page as well.



 Comments   
Comment by Githook User [ 23/Jan/15 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'tychoish', u'name': u'Sam Kleinman', u'email': u'samk@10gen.com'}

Message: DOCS-4232: clean up wording and redundancy
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/a9e9ccaf4118cc95d3e6aa3d9b8124aa9dee54aa

Comment by Githook User [ 23/Jan/15 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'mpaik', u'name': u'Michael Paik', u'email': u'michael.paik@10gen.com'}

Message: DOCS-4232 - backup role clarificaition

Signed-off-by: Sam Kleinman <samk@10gen.com>
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/752e4f4c7ffa6400670bfd344abd41e261ecd627

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