Chat+ backup and move

ISO someone to help move my Chat+ mongod database to another server.

I've got the second server setup with a new chat install and have backed up the room data.

The problem I'm having is restoring the data using "mongodump --out /data/backup/," errors like

 "don't know what to do with file "mot27/rocketchat_room.metadata.json", skipping..."

Look at this; anything here that may help?

https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/7437

 Not really, but thanks for looking.

I will pay someone.

I'm afraid I won't get help here or UNA site.

Off to search for someone.

We use the following commands to dump and restore our demo every half an hour:

- stop the server

- dump the database:

mkdir mongo_rocketchat_db_dump; mongodump -d rocketchat -o mongo_rocketchat_db_dump

- move mongo_rocketchat_db_dump folder to the new server

- restore from backup:

mongorestore ./mongo_rocketchat_db_dump

 Thanks!!!!

 The "rocketchat" above; is that generalized or the actual name of the chat?

My chat is "mot27" so do I use that?

Yes, if you have different monodb database name, then you need to change it like you've highlighted.

@newton27  AlexT solution will work, but you will end up with a folder that has lots of json files which you will need to archive all of them before you can transfer the dump file to another server and restore it..

The alternative is to backup your mongodb and archive the files on the fly:

Lets call source db:  HR_PROD
and target db:           HR_STAGE

>> Backup
Now, lets backup HR_PROD on server-A and restore it on server-B with a different name:
Server-A> mongodump -d HR_PROD --gzip --archive='HR_PROD_BACKUP.gz"

>> Restore backed db and rename it to something else:
Server-B> mongorestore -d --nsFrom "HR_PROD" --nsTo "HR_STAGE"  --drop --gzip --archive="HR_PROD_BACKUP.gz"

Note: I added the parameter --drop which means drop the target db if it already exists and then restore.

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