MongoDB mongorestore failure: locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid

Question

I created a dump with mongodump on computer A (ubuntu 12.04 server). I moved it to computer B (ubuntu 12.04 server) and typed:

mongorestore -db db_nam

Answer 1

Exporting LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" only works if you have the en_US locale installed. If you want to avoid installing the locales package (or its equivalent on distributions other than Debian derivatives), then you can instead use:

export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8

which will not require any extra locale data.