I have a dump folder which was created few year ago using mongodump, and want to use this info with a newly created metor app which is the same as the old meteor app after few packages updates and runs without errors.
I installed the mongodb server on this windows 10, the cmd mongo prints
connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/?compressors=disabled&gssapiServiceName=mongodb
MongoDB server version: 4.2.7
what is the "best" way to use the info with the meteor app.
Can some one please give the overview of how all this things work together and then how to use the old info "including the command mongorestore" with the newly created metoer app?
It has been few years so will need polish my thinking on meteor and mongodb again.
My understanding is mongorestore the backup, then run the mongodb server in a separate cmd window, issue a cmd to connect to the restored database, and somehow tell meteor to use this server. Ok I give up.
Thanks
Meteor comes with a bundled MongoDB in development mode, where the mongodb always runs on the app's port + 1 (app: 3000 = mongo: 3001).
You can simply start your Meteor app and when running open a new console and cd into your project folder, then enter:
mongorestore -h localhost:3001 --db meteor /path/to/dump/
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mongodump was used long time ago to create a backup, now in order to restore the database for a Meteor app, this command was used:
ais2> mongorestore C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\
PS C:\Users\empl1\Documents\meteor\apps\ais2> mongorestore C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\
preparing collections to restore from
reading metadata for dbais2.dataTeckAllMatchCol from C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\dbais2\dataTeckAllMatchCol.metadata.json
reading metadata for dbais2.makeModelCol from C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\dbais2\makeModelCol.metadata.json
reading metadata for dbais2.usageCol from C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\dbais2\usageCol.metadata.json
reading metadata for dbais2.vehiclesDetailsCol from C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\dbais2\vehiclesDetailsCol.metadata.json
restoring dbais2.dataTeckAllMatchCol from C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\dbais2\dataTeckAllMatchCol.bson
restoring dbais2.makeModelCol from C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\dbais2\makeModelCol.bson
restoring dbais2.usageCol from C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\dbais2\usageCol.bson
restoring dbais2.vehiclesDetailsCol from C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\dbais2\vehiclesDetailsCol.bson
finished restoring dbais2.dataTeckAllMatchCol (11705 documents, 0 failures)
Since I have a directory "dbais2" with all the database files located in the above path.
In a new shell ais2> meteor mongo opens a mongo shell, but show dbs does not show the "dbais2". How can I use the newly restored database? or it was not restored correctly? if so. how to restore it correctly?
Thanks
When you run mongorestore as is, it will connect to the mongo instance running on port 27017 on your local machine (if any). That's what you would use in production. Since the restore succeeded, it must be that you have such an instance running. In that case, run mongo ais2 to connect to that instance and db.
In development, meteor runs its own mongo instance on port 3001 (assuming you used meteor on the default port 3000). When you run meteor mongo that is the instance your shell will connect to. If you want to restore into that, then rerun your command with the port specified:
mongorestore --port=3001 -d meteor C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\
After that you should see your data in the shell opened by meteor mongo. Note that in this command I'm also overriding the database name, so that the data will be imported into the database used by meteor in development (also called meteor).
I'm sorry for this (peraphs) stupid question ... I install meteor and mongodb in my windows computer and i start to write some apps. I don't understand how to use mongo for shoving my db app ... i open one shell in my app dir and launch mongod, in one more shell in the same folder i start mongo.
show dbs
local
use local
switched to db local
show collections
startup_log
system.indexes
Where are my collections? Where is users collection?
When your app is running use this command on a separate command line mongo 127.0.0.1:3001
Meteor keeps the collections in this server. After you run mongo on this server, by writing use meteor you can use db specific to your running app. And then you can display your collections with db.getCollectionNames()
Meteor uses a library called Minimongo that's why it doesn't display if you run show dbs on your mongo shell.
By default it points to port 3001 hence if you are using Robomongo you can just make the set up to watch that port.
To display all your MongoDB collections using the shell, you may check this answer:
How to list all collections in the mongo shell?
You may also use a MongoDB GUI Tool such Robomongo
It seems the answer in this thread (Accessing Meteor production database) does not work anymore when you want to access a meteor production database in 2016. I want to access a meteor production database blah.meteor.com using
meteor mongo blah.meteor.com
instead what I get is:
connecting to: sg-mother1-6243.servers.mongodirector.com:27017/blah_meteor_com
2016-01-18T15:21:49.884+0200 Error: 18 { ok: 0.0, errmsg: "auth failed", code: 18 } at src/mongo/shell/db.js:1210
exception: login failed
Then I tried
meteor mongo --url blah.meteor.com
I get username cursor. I enter my meteor site username and press enter and then get password cursor. I enter password for the above username and press enter. I get presented with the following url:
mongodb://client-2ee8c14d:c1546ca8-4e7e-5883-0214-150b309fb4fb#SG-mother1-6242.servers.mongodirector.com:27017/blah_meteor_com
Then every time I re-enter
meteor mongo --url blah.meteor.com
I am assumed to have logged on already, and I just get presented with a similar url to the one I was presented with just above.
I read the "meteor mongo command" documentation by entering:
meteor mongo --help
In the documentation I read the following line:
Instead of opening a shell, specifying --url (-U) will return a URL
suitable for an external program to connect to the database. For remote
databases on deployed applications, the URL is valid for one minute.
For the meaning, I went back to the thread (stackoverflow.com/questions/11801278/accessing-meteor-production-database) I mentioned in the beggining and read:
"So what it's saying is, the url provided by running the command with the --url option is for connecting to the database by some external application, i.e. other than meteor."
I don't know what other application can help me connect to meteor production database other than what I used to do in 2015, which is:
meteor mongo blah.meteor.com
I read somewhere that I can use the mongo shell intead but I don't know how to open it and I don't know the mongo installation directory when it is installed with meteor. I am using linux (fedora) OS.
How do I access meteor production database in 2016? Are there upgrades that happened that make me not to be able to access meteor production database as easily as I did in 2015?
You are trying to connect to a database version 3.0 while your meteor mongo command still use the version 2.6.7 of mongo
Try this workaround :
Install Mongo version (3.x) directly on your machine.
Then run this command (should work on osx, linux and windows when sed is installed):
mongo `meteor mongo --url XXX.meteor.com | sed 's/mongodb:\/\//-u /' | sed 's/:/ -p /' | sed 's/#/ /'`
Source: https://forums.meteor.com/t/meteor-mongo-xxx-meteor-com-giving-exception-login-failed-workaround/15289
Since Meteor stopped supporting the use of .meteor domains and every developer needs to get his hosting by himself, I found a way accessing the remote's database by using mup or mupx. I wrote it in this post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/37439315/2908071
I hope this will help future people.
When I meteor deploy my app, it seems to create an entirely new mongodb instance. I'd like to be able to deploy with the current mongodb have locally.
Same goes the other way -- I'd like to be able to download the mongodb back to my localhost after it has been deployed.
For clarification, I'd really like to know the follow:
1) how to deploy with a fresh mongodb
2) how to deploy to an existing deployed app without overwriting the old mongodb
3) how to download/sync mongodb locally with the existing deployed app
4) how to make local backups of mongodb
You can perform a mongo dump using meteor mongo to export your local database and deploy your app using Meteor Up which should also allow you to automate the database import and deployment process.
"Meteor Up (mup for short) is a command line tool that allows you to deploy any meteor app into your own server."
You can stop the mongodb service and start a mongod instance in a separate terminal, by just typing mongod. This will let you monitor what's happening on the mongodb instance that you just started.
Open another terminal and do export MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/nameOfDBgoesHere
This will create a new DB named "nameOfDBgoesHere" and it won't overwrite what you currently have, unless you name it with the same name.
After that just start meteor by typing meteor in your program's folder. In the mongod terminal that you opened you should see some connections opening.
By default mongodb creates it's DB files in /data/db. If you have another meteor app and follow the same steps in another terminal, while keeping the name of the DB you specified in the MONGO_URL you will just connect to it from that app - without overwriting anything.
As for the syncing with a deployed app and the local backups of mongo - it seems like something that the mongodb website covers, but maybe someone can chime in here. Not sure if there is a meteor specific, easy way of doing this.
I'm new to both Meteor.js and MongoDB and after installing Meteor in the official way described I wonder how to connect to my MongoDB.
MongoDB was installed by Meteor during the installation and everything works fine but now I would like to have a look into it with another tool (like RazorSQL) to see what's in there.
But the standard connection parameters (localhost:27017) doesn't work, what can I do? Login? Password?
Update: February 2014 - Meteor 0.7.1 - The meteor port has been shifted to 3001 instead of 3002. So instead of adding two to the port meteor runs on, you add 1 instead.
MongoDB's database is installed in the meteor package containing your files in a hidden folder called .meteor. To access it from a remote tool simply add 2 to whatever your web server port is while meteor is running. It will be stored in the meteor database
e.g
http://localhost:3000 would have its mongodb server running at mongodb://localhost:3002/meteor there is no username/password on this instance if you ran it with meteor or meteor run
To get the Meteor Mongo url and port, first run your Meteor app using meteor run then run meteor mongo in a different terminal tab. You should see an output like this
[meteor-app] meteor mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.6.7
connecting to: 127.0.0.1:3001/meteor
this means that your Meteor Mongo is running at 127.0.0.1:3001.
If you are running your Meteor app with meteor run then you neither need username/password nor authentication configuration just make sure that you set your default database name as meteor