[SERVER-14344] mongodump Created: 24/Jun/14  Updated: 10/Dec/14  Resolved: 24/Jun/14

Status: Closed
Project: Core Server
Component/s: Tools
Affects Version/s: 2.6.3
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Question Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Dwayne Mcnab Assignee: Ramon Fernandez Marina
Resolution: Done Votes: 0
Labels: None
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified

Attachments: Text File mongodumpError.txt    
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 Description   

I am doing a backup of my sharded cluster in a testing environment and I am having issues getting mongodump to backup my data files.
Steps to produce backup:
1. turn off the balancer on a secondary member of each shard/replicaset.

2. set fsyncLock to false to disable sychronization on each of the secondaries above.

3. connect to two other secondaries in the set and ran mongodump.

However I keep getting this error message, please see file attached.



 Comments   
Comment by Dwayne Mcnab [ 24/Jun/14 ]

Thanks Ramon.

Sent from my iPhone

Comment by Thomas Rueckstiess [ 24/Jun/14 ]

Hi Dwayne,

It looks like you're connecting to an existing mongod instance and also providing the --dbpath option. You should either choose one or the other: you can't run mogodump against database files if a mongod is using those files.

If you want to run the dump from the live mongod, you do not need to add the --dbpath option; if you want to use --dbpath, you have to stop mongod.

Please note: The SERVER project is for reporting bugs or feature suggestions for the MongoDB server.

For future MongoDB-related support questions please post on the mongodb-users group (http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user) or Stack Overflow with the mongodb tag.

Regards,
Thomas

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