Steps to remove export bucket from a cluster

MongoDB Atlas
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What are the steps to remove an export bucket associated with a cluster?

My situation:

I’ve successfully created a cluster, back up schedule with export bucket to AWS S3 with Terraform.

However when trying to destroy the created resources, deletion step for “mongodbatlas_cloud_backup_snapshot_export_bucket” resource hangs indefinitely until I SIGINT with ctrl+c the terraform destroy command.

I’ve also tried to delete the export bucket by first finding the id of the bucket with atlas cli:
atlas backups exports buckets list

And then attempted to delete it with:
atlas backups exports buckets delete --bucketId=<bucket_id_from_above_command_here>
However, this resulted in an error:
Error: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v2/groups/<project_id>/backup/exportBuckets/<bucket_id> DELETE: HTTP 400 (Error code: “EXPORT_BUCKET_DELETE_FAILED”) Detail: Failed to delete export Bucket with ID <bucket_id>. Reason: Bad Request. Params: [<bucket_id>]

I’ve tried authenticating to atlas cli with api keys with Organization Owner and Project Owner permissions

So my question is:

How do I actually remove an export bucket without destroying my cluster?

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I’ve now also tried the Atlas Administration API by successfully authenticating with the auth digest header, fetching export buckets with this
https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/reference/api-resources-spec/v2/#tag/Cloud-Backups/operation/listExportBuckets

and tried to delete the export bucket association with
https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/reference/api-resources-spec/v2/#tag/Cloud-Backups/operation/deleteExportBucket

which gives me the following json error:

{
    "detail": "Failed to delete export Bucket with ID <bucket_id>.",
    "error": 400,
    "errorCode": "EXPORT_BUCKET_DELETE_FAILED",
    "parameters": [
        "<bucket_id>"
    ],
    "reason": "Bad Request"
}

I’m at a loss of what to do next, as destroying the cluster is not an option-

4

Hi Mika,

What was the output here? Redact the "_id" and "iamRoleId" values within the results array.

Can you provide the full command here used? Include a replacement / dummy value for "exportBucketId" or be sure to redact the actual value used before posting here.

Regards,
Jason

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What was the output here? Redact the "_id" and "iamRoleId" values within the results array.

{
    "links": [
        {
            "href": "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v2/groups/<our_project_id>/backup/exportBuckets?pageNum=1&itemsPerPage=100",
            "rel": "self"
        }
    ],
    "results": [
        {
            "_id": <bucket_id_1>",
            "bucketName": "<bucket_name_1>",
            "cloudProvider": "AWS",
            "iamRoleId": "<role_1_id>"
        },
        {
            "_id": "<bucket_id_2>",
            "bucketName": "taika3d-backups-mongodb-snapshots",
            "cloudProvider": "AWS",
            "iamRoleId": "<role_2_id>"
        }
    ],
    "totalCount": 2
}

I have to redact more than your suggested redactions since this is a public forum and bucket names would expose information that I’m not allowed to share publicly

atlas backup exports buckets delete --bucketId=<bucket_2_id>

I used the “bucket_2_id” value from the API response

I also tried the admin API with HTTP DELETE method

[https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v2/groups/<our_project_id>/backup/exportBuckets/<bucket_2_id>

Which resulted in the following response:

{
    "detail": "Failed to delete export Bucket with ID <bucket_2_id.",
    "error": 400,
    "errorCode": "EXPORT_BUCKET_DELETE_FAILED",
    "parameters": [
        "<bucket_2_id>"
    ],
    "reason": "Bad Request"
}

The atlas cli command

atlas backup exports buckets describe --bucketId=<bucket_2_id>

Correctly returns the same information about the bucket as admin API GET request earlier in this post