How to restore gzipped Monogdb single collection?

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Hye everyone, I am new to mongodb I dumped one of my collection using following command mongodump --db somedb --collection somecollection --out - | gzip > collectiondump.gz given on the link now when I try to restore it using mongorestore it gives Error dont know what to do with file.

kindly help me I used this way because the answer in the given link got too much upvotes

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@RaviTezu 2016-05-06T19:31:47.101+0500 building a list of collections to restore from userprofiles dir 2016-05-06T19:31:47.102+0500 don't know what to do with file "userprofiles/userprofies", skipping... 2016-05-06T19:31:47.102+0500 done — zish, May 06 '16 at 14:33
Sorry for the questions, would you mind adding the command you are using to restore it? — RaviTezu, May 06 '16 at 15:02
userprofiles is the directory where I gunzipped the mongodump file — zish, May 06 '16 at 15:06

score 12 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 08 '17 at 08:59

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You can just add gzip to the restore command:

mongorestore --gzip --db projectx userprofiles/

answered Jun 08 '17 at 08:59

JAR.JAR.beans

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 06 '16 at 17:33

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Okay I have got my answer first of all I converted the extension of my gunzipped file to bson by using command

gunzip -c userprofiles.gz > users.bson

after that I used mongorestore command

mongorestore --db projectx userprofiles/

Thats it

answered May 06 '16 at 17:33

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How to restore gzipped Monogdb single collection?

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