Server Warnings: mongodump

[FATeknollogee]

on v 0.9.59.

Under My Server, I see this "Server Warnings.
WARNING: Unable to find mongodump, MongoDB database auto-backup will not be performed."

What can I do to fix this?

[nzalev]

This indicates meshcentral cannot find the mongodump executable.

You will need to add the autobackup section to your config.json to tell meshcentral the file path to mongodump.exe.

  "settings": {
    "tlsOffload": "127.0.0.1",
    "mongoDb": "mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/",
    "AutoBackup": {
      "mongodumppath": "C:\\Program Files\\MongoDB\\Server\\4.4\\bin\\mongodump.exe"
    },
    ...

Assuming that you are using Windows, ensure that you have mongodump.exe installed. Find it's full path on your machine, and specify the path in mongodumppath. You must use double backslashes in the config file.

There are also a variety of other issues with this exact warning: #2791, #2491, #2242, #2945

[FATeknollogee]

Thanks for the info @nzalev
I'm running Fedora, I'll take a look at the links you posted.

[FATeknollogee]

It seems like I don't have mongodump installed:

# which mongodump
/usr/bin/which: no mongodump in `(/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin)

[nzalev]

If you are running linux, generally, the next advice I give so to run which mongodump to check if it is installed, so I am glad you beat me to it.

I believe there is an RPM available. On linux, you don't need to include include the autobackup section of the config or mongodumppath, as long as the binary is within the $PATH variable for the user running meshcentral.

[FATeknollogee]

If you are running linux, generally, the next advice I give so to run which mongodump to check if it is installed, so I am glad you beat me to it.

I believe there is an RPM available. On linux, you don't need to include include the autobackup section of the config or mongodumppath, as long as the binary is within the $PATH variable for the user running meshcentral.

Thank you.