How to perform one-time DB sync to another DB in MongoDB?

Question

I have separate development and production MongoDB servers and I want to keep actual data in development server for sometime. What I should use for it: mongodump, mongoimport or

Answer 1

If it's a one time-thing

and you want fine control over parameters such as which collections to sync, you should use:

• mongodump to dump bson files of your Production DB to your local machine
• mongorestore to then, retrieve the dumped BSON files in your Local DB

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Otherwise you should check out mongo-sync

It's a script I wrote for my self when I had to constantly copy my Local MongoDB database to and from my Production DB for a Project (I know it's stupid).

Once you put your DB details in config.yml, you can start syncing using two simple commands:

./mongo-sync push       # Push DB to Remote
./mongo-sync pull       # Pull DB to Local

If you use it inside some project, it's a good idea to add config.yml to .gitignore