Mongodump: Unrecognized field 'snapshot'

I am using mongodump from mongo tools to download a backup of my server. However as I run the command, the command returns "Unrecognized field 'snapshot'".

The full error is:

Failed: error reading collection: Failed to parse: { find: "data", skip: 0, snapshot: true, $readPreference: { mode: "secondaryPreferred" }, $db: "xxx" }. Unrecognized field 'snapshot'.

Mongodump --version returns:

mongodump version: built-without-version-string
git version: built-without-git-spec
Go version: go1.7.3
   os: linux
   arch: amd64
   compiler: gc
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.2g  1 Mar 2016

I might need to downgrade my version? Otherwise unsure of where to go from here...

Add --forceTableScan

Example:

mongodump --forceTableScan -d database_name -o target_directory

http://aug2uag.blogspot.com/2018/08/mongoexport-unrecognized-field-snapshot.html

The Error comes from the mongo snapshot functionality which was introduced in mongo 4.0 (https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/read-concern-snapshot/)

If you use an older mongo client (<4.0) to dump/export a more recent MongoDB you will get the error

Unrecognized field 'snapshot'

Using "forceTableScan" will prevent the snapshot functionality to become active, this you won't get the error

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