Dump and restore data from mongodb

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08/06/2021

mongodb

Download tools

MongoDB has separated its command line tools from the database binary, so to use mongodump and mongorestore, you need to download the latest tools from their website here.

Once downloaded, unzip it, you will find the bin folder, inside which you could see the mongodump and mongorestore. Also mongoimport and mongoexport, etc.

Dump

Here we use the --archive option to dump the db as a single archive file, named db.archive:

From a local database:

1	$ mongodump --uri=mongodb://<USER>:<PASSWORD>@localhost:27017/<DATABASE> --archive=db.archive

From a mongodb atlas:

1	$ mongodump --uri mongodb+srv://<USER>:<PASSWORD>@<ATLAS-URL>/<DATABASE> --archive=db.archive

Restore

Restore to a local database:

1	$ mongorestore --uri="mongodb://<USER>:<PASSWORD>@localhost:27017/<DATABASE>" --archive=db.archive --nsExclude="admin.system.*"

Restore to mongodb atlas:

1	$ mongorestore --uri="mongodb+srv://<USER>:<PASSWORD>@<ATLAS-URL>/<DATABASE>" --archive=db.archive --nsExclude="admin.system.*"