Mongodump Shell Script for Cronjob

mongo_backup.sh

#!/bin/bash
 
MONGO_DATABASE="your_db_name"
APP_NAME="your_app_name"

MONGO_HOST="127.0.0.1"
MONGO_PORT="27017"
TIMESTAMP=`date +%F-%H%M`
MONGODUMP_PATH="/usr/bin/mongodump"
BACKUPS_DIR="/home/username/backups/$APP_NAME"
BACKUP_NAME="$APP_NAME-$TIMESTAMP"
 
# mongo admin --eval "printjson(db.fsyncLock())"
# $MONGODUMP_PATH -h $MONGO_HOST:$MONGO_PORT -d $MONGO_DATABASE
$MONGODUMP_PATH -d $MONGO_DATABASE
# mongo admin --eval "printjson(db.fsyncUnlock())"
 
mkdir -p $BACKUPS_DIR
mv dump $BACKUP_NAME
tar -zcvf $BACKUPS_DIR/$BACKUP_NAME.tgz $BACKUP_NAME
rm -rf $BACKUP_NAME

Hi @serverguru666, just wondering does mongoDB authenticationType have anything to do with this error that i get when i try mongodump using your connection format -
2020-05-31T23:53:02.921+0000 Failed: can't create session: could not connect to server: connection() : auth error: sasl conversation error: unable to authenticate using mechanism "SCRAM-SHA-256": (AuthenticationFailed) Authentication failed.

NB: The issue is that the command doesn't want me to add --password as plaintext, if i remove the --password flag it prompts me for password and works ok.

How to delete after 1 week please let me know..