Mongodump is a utility for creating a binary export of the contents of a database.
Consider using this utility as part of an effective backup strategy. Use mongodump in conjunction with mongorestore to restore databases.
Questions tagged [mongodump]
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MongoDB mongorestore failure: locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
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_name --drop db_dump_path
It failed and it reported:
connected to: 127.0.0.1
terminate called…
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How to use mongodump for 1 collection
How can I use mongodump to move a single collection from one database to another?
How should I use the command and its options?
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Can't create backup mongodump with --db. Authentication failed
When I create backup of all databases in MongoDB (version 3):
mongodump --username bacUser --password 12345
It's OK. But when I try to create backup of a selected db:
mongodump --username bacUser --password 12345 --db test
It gives me this…
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How to use the dumped data by mongodump?
I have used mongodump to dump my database of mongodb, it created some bson files under dump/mydb
But I don't know how to use them. I tried mongoimport, but seems it can't import bson data. Then how to use these bson files? How to import them to…
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mongodump ignore some specified collections
I was trying to backup my mongo database on the product sever.and then restore then back to the staging server.
and here comes some problem, there are a lot of collections in db, I want to igonre some collections that I don't want to restore on…
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MongoDb: How to import dump data from .gz file?
I want to import dump data from my .gz file.
Location of file is home/Alex/Documents/Abc/dump.gz and the name of db is "Alex".
I have tried mongorestore --gzip --db "Alex" /home/Alex/Documents/Abc/dump.gz
But it shows error:
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mongodb dump fails with cannot unmarshal DNS message
I am using a mongo db server version MongoDB shell version v4.0.16 installed on a EC2 instance.
I am able to get into the instance using mongo command
mongo mongodb+srv://dxxxxxxx:xxxxxx[][]@cluster0-vxcen.gcp.mongodb.net
MongoDB shell version…
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MongoDB dump from 3.2, restore with 3.4, error index safe = null
I get the following error (dump MongoDB 3.2) (restore MongoDB 3.4):
Failed: ngivr-dev.ledgerhelpers: error creating indexes for ngivr-dev.ledgerhelpers: **createIndex error:** **The field 'safe' is not valid for an index specification.**…
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Is it possible to specify a directory/folder for mongodump?
I'd like to specify the directory to which mongodump dumps, via a switch on the mongodump command. Is this possible?
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MongoDB restore warning
I'm following this tutorial to backup and restore a single MongoDB database.
The backup command -
sudo mongodump --db newdb --out /var/backups/mongobackups/`date +"%m-%d-%y"`
The restore command -
sudo mongorestore --db newdb --drop…
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Drop all indexes from all collections in a MongoDB database using the command line
I've used mongorestore to restore a database but I'm getting an error that the index already exists when I try to run my application.
I know of the function db.collection.dropIndex() but is there a way to automate this and drop all indexes from all…
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Mongorestore, from meteor production server to local
I've found plenty of good instructions on how to use mongodump and mongorestore, to back up my meteor production server and restore the backup if need be:
meteor mongo --url myApp.meteor.com
mongodump -u client -h production-db-b2.meteor.io:27017…
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What is the archive format used by mongodump with "--archive" key?
Is there a way to extract data from that archive without mongorestore?
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After Mongodump, calling MongoRestore hangs
We are trying to do a simple MongoDump on a relatively small DB.
our steps are simple:
export
drop exisiting DB from target machine
import on target machine
The MongoDump executes perfectly.
mongodump --out=/root/mongo-prod
The same goes for the…
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mongodump vs mongoexport: which is better?
I want to export very large collections and import them into another database in another server. I found there are at least two ways: mongoexport and mongodump.
I searched previous posts about this issue, however I did not find a complete…
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