Start or Stop the Backup Agent
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Important
Legacy Backup and Monitoring Agents are EoL for Ops Manager 4.4
Update from your self-managed legacy Backup and Monitoring Agents to the MongoDB Agent.
For maintenance or troubleshooting purposes, you may want to temporarily shut down or restart the Backup Agent. However, for proper operation of Ops Manager Backup your Ops Manager project must have at least one Backup Agent running. The project needs only one Backup Agent.
Procedures
Start the Backup Agent
Start an Agent Installed with an rpm Package
If you installed the Backup Agent using an rpm package, such as on
RHEL, CentOS, or SUSE, issue the following command to start the agent:
sudo service mongodb-mms-backup-agent start
Start an Agent Installed with a deb Package
If you installed the Backup Agent using a deb package, as on
Ubuntu, issue the following command to start the agent:
sudo start mongodb-mms-backup-agent
Start an Agent Installed with a tar File
Use this command if you installed to Linux or OSX using a tar file.
Issue the following command from the directory to which you installed
the Backup Agent:
nohup ./mongodb-mms-backup-agent >> backup-agent.log 2>&1 &
Start the Backup Agent on Windows
In Windows Control Panel, open Administrative Tools and then
Services. In the list of services, select MongoDB Backup Agent. Select
the Action menu and select Start.
Stop the Backup Agent
If you use Ops Manager Backup, you must have a Backup Agent running to ensure up-to-date backup data.
Stop an Agent Installed with an rpm Package
If you installed the Backup Agent using an rpm package, such as on
RHEL, CentOS, or SUSE, issue the following command to stop the agent:
sudo service mongodb-mms-backup-agent stop
Stop an Agent Installed with a deb Package
If you installed the Backup Agent using a deb package, as on
Ubuntu, issue the following command to stop the agent:
sudo stop mongodb-mms-backup-agent
Stop an Agent Installed with a tar File
If you installed to a Linux system or OSX using a tar file, issue
the following command to stop the Backup Agent:
pkill -f mongodb-mms-backup-agent
Stop the Backup Agent on Windows
In Windows Control Panel, open Administrative Tools and then
Services. In the list of services, select MongoDB Backup Agent.
Select the Action menu and select Stop.
If you receive a message that your Backup Agent is out of date, make
sure you are running an upgradeable version of the Backup Agent. If you
are running the version of the Backup Agent named MongoDBBackup,
you must remove it before upgrading. To check if you are running
MongoDBBackup, issue the following command in an Administrative
command prompt:
sc query MongoDBBackup
If the command returns a result, you must remove the MongoDBBackup
agent. To remove it, issue the following:
sc delete MongoDBBackup