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Micah Alcorn
Micah Alcorn

Reputation: 2383

Mongo: lost connection & collections

I was running a Rails rake task overnight on my local machine in order to seed my Mongo collection. It had probably generated about 45,000 records before I received the following exception:

Operation failed with the following exception: connection closed

Failed to connect to a master node at localhost:27017

I am on a Mac OS X, so I attempted mongo and received the following:

Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1 shell/mongo.js:84
exception: connect failed

So I ran mongod thinking that this would simply start up the process. It now appears to have indexed new collections, because all of them are empty. Did I overwrite them, or might they still exist somewhere?

I ran ls /data/db and I see myapp_development.0 and myapp_development.ns. Does that tell me anything?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1838

Answers (1)

Stennie
Stennie

Reputation: 65433

Sounds like your MongoDB data directory was set to somewhere other than the default (/data/db). Restarting would likely have started mongod with the correct --dbpath.

For example, if you followed a MAMP install guide the suggestion may have been to put the data directory inside /Applications/MAMP/db/mongo.

You should be able to find the dbpath used by running the following command in the mongo JS shell:

db.adminCommand('getCmdLineOpts')

Look for a parsed setting for "dbpath".

Upvotes: 2

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