mongodump assertion 17369

Question

Folks, When running a mongodump command, I get the following error:

assertion: 17369 Backing up users and roles is only supported for clusters with auth schema versions 1 or 3, found: 5

Any suggestions on how to address? MongoDB v2.8

Answer 1

Your version of mongodump might be to old. Running a v2.6 client with a v2.8+ server (with the new auth scheme) will give this error.

In my case I was running MongoDB v3.0 on the server, trying to make a dump with MongoDB v2.6 client. After upgrading mongodb-org-tools to v3.0 on my laptop, the problem went away.