Moving MongoDB's data folder?

Question

I have 2 computers in different places (so it\'s impossible to use the same wifi network). One contains about 50GBs of data (MongoDB files) that I want to move to the second on

Answer 1

Maybe what you didn't do was export or dump the database. Databases aren't portable therefore must be exported or created as a dumpfile.

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