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Build from source code

Prerequisites

To build Percona Backup for MongoDB from source, you need the following:

  • Go 1.19 or above. Install and set up Go tools
  • make
  • git
  • krb5-devel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS or libkrb5-dev for Debian / Ubuntu. This package is required for Kerberos authentication in Percona Server for MongoDB.

Procedure

Here’s how to build Percona Backup for MongoDB:

  1. Clone the repository

    $ git clone https://github.com/percona/percona-backup-mongodb

  2. Go to the project directory and build it

    $ cd percona-backup-mongodb
$ make build

After make completes, you can find pbm and pbm-agent binaries in the ./bin directory.

  1. Check that Percona Backup for MongoDB has been built correctly and is ready for use. 

    $ cd bin
$ ./pbm version
    Output 
    Version:   [pbm version number]
Platform:  linux/amd64
GitCommit: [commit hash]
GitBranch: main
BuildTime: [time when this version was produced in UTC format]
GoVersion: [Go version number]

    Tip

    Instead of specifying the path to pbm binaries, you can add it to the PATH environment variable: 

    $ export PATH=/percona-backup-mongodb/bin:$PATH

Post-install steps

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  1. Create the environment file:

    $ touch /etc/default/pbm-agent

  2. Create the pbm-agent.service systemd unit file.

    $ sudo vim /lib/systemd/system/pbm-agent.service

  3. In the pbm-agent.service file, specify the following:

    [Unit]
Description=pbm-agent
After=time-sync.target network.target

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/pbm-agent
Type=simple
User=mongod
Group=mongod
PermissionsStartOnly=true
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pbm-agent

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

    Note

    Make sure that the ExecStart directory includes the Percona Backup for MongoDB binaries. Otherwise, copy them from the ./bin directory of you installation path.

  4. Make systemd aware of the new service:

    $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload

  1. Create the environment file:

    $ touch /etc/sysconfig/pbm-agent

  2. Create the pbm-agent.service systemd unit file.

    $ sudo vim /usr/lib/systemd/system/pbm-agent.service

  3. In the pbm-agent.service file, specify the following:

    [Unit]
Description=pbm-agent
After=time-sync.target network.target

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/pbm-agent
Type=simple
User=mongod
Group=mongod
PermissionsStartOnly=true
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pbm-agent

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

    Note

    Make sure that the ExecStart directory includes the Percona Backup for MongoDB binaries. Otherwise, copy them from the ./bin directory of you installation path.

  4. Make systemd aware of the new service:

    $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Next steps

Initial setup

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