Is there a simple way to export the data from a meteor deployed app?

Question

Is there a simple way to export the data from a meteor deployed app?

So, for example, if I had deployed an app named test.meteor.com...

How could I easily d

Answer 1

meteor-backup is by far the easiest way to do this.

sudo npm install -g meteor-db-utils
meteor-backup [domain] [collection...]

As of March 2015 you still need to specify all collections you want to fetch though (until this issue is resolved).

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Stuff from the past below

I'm doing

mongodump $(meteor mongo -U example.meteor.com | coffee url2args.cfee)

together with this little coffeescript, with a mangled extension in order not to confuse Meteor, url2args.cfee:

stdin = process.openStdin()
stdin.setEncoding 'utf8'
stdin.on 'data', (input) ->
  m = input.match /mongodb:\/\/(\w+):((\w+-)+\w+)@((\w+\.)+\w+):27017\/(\w+)/
  console.log "-u #{m[1]} -h #{m[4]} -p #{m[2]} -d #{m[6]}"

(it would be nicer if meteor mongo -U --mongodumpoptions would give these options, or if mongodump would accept the mongo:// URL)

Answer 2

Here is a simple bash script that lets you dump your database from meteor.com hosted sites.

#!/bin/bash

site="rankz.meteor.com"
name="$(meteor mongo --url $site)"
echo $name

IFS='@' read -a mongoString <<< "$name"

echo "HEAD: ${mongoString[0]}"
echo "TAIL: ${mongoString[1]}"

IFS=':' read -a pwd <<< "${mongoString[0]}"

echo "${pwd[1]}"
echo "${pwd[1]:2}"
echo "${pwd[2]}"


IFS='/' read -a site <<< "${mongoString[1]}"

echo "${site[0]}"
echo "${site[1]}"


mongodump -u ${pwd[1]:2} -h ${site[0]} -d ${site[1]}\
          -p ${pwd[2]}

Answer 3

I have created a tool, mmongo, that wraps all the Mongo DB client shell commands for convenient use on a Meteor database. If you use npm (Node Package Manager), you can install it with:

npm install -g mmongo

Otherwise, see README.

To back up your Meteor database, you can now do:

mmongo test.meteor.com dump 

To upload it to your local development meteor would be:

mmongo restore dump/test_meteor_com

And if you accidentally delete your production database:

mmongo test.meteor.com --eval 'db.dropDatabase()'   # whoops!

You can easily restore it:

mmongo test.meteor.com restore dump/test_meteor_com 

If you'd rather export a collection (say tasks) to something readable:

mmongo test.meteor.com export -c tasks -o tasks.json

Then you can open up tasks.json in your text editor, do some changes and insert the changes with:

mmongo test.meteor.com import tasks.json -c tasks --upsert

Github, NPM

Answer 4

I made this simple Rakefile to copy the live db to local.

To restore the live db to my local machine I just do...

rake copy_live_db

Replace myapp with the name of your meteor.com - e.g myapp.meteor.com.

require 'rubygems'
require 'open-uri'

desc "Backup the live db to local ./dump folder"
task :backup_live_db do
  uri = `meteor mongo myapp --url`
  pass = uri.match(/client:([^@]+)@/)[1]
  puts "Using live db password: #{pass}"
  `mongodump -h meteor.m0.mongolayer.com:27017 -d myapp_meteor_com -u client -p #{pass}`
end


desc "Copy live database to local"
task :copy_live_db => :backup_live_db do
  server =  `meteor mongo --url`
  uri = URI.parse(server)
  `mongorestore --host #{uri.host} --port #{uri.port} --db meteor --drop dump/myapp_meteor_com/`
end

desc "Restore last backup"
task :restore do
  server =  `meteor mongo --url`
  uri = URI.parse(server)
  `mongorestore --host #{uri.host} --port #{uri.port} --db meteor --drop dump/myapp_meteor_com/`
end

Answer 5

To get the URL for your deployed site at meteor.com use the command (you may need to provide your site password if you password protected it):

meteor mongo --url YOURSITE.meteor.com

Which will return something like :

mongodb://client:PASSWORD@sky.member1.mongolayer.com:27017/YOURSITE_meteor_com

Which you can give to a program like mongodump

mongodump -u client -h sky.member1.mongolayer.com:27017 -d YOURSITE_meteor_com\
          -p PASSWORD

The password is only good for one minute. For usage:

$ meteor --help mongo

Answer 6

And here's how to do the opposite: (uploading your local monogo db to meteor)

https://gist.github.com/IslamMagdy/5519514

# How to upload local db to meteor:

# -h = host, -d = database name, -o = dump folder name
mongodump -h 127.0.0.1:3002 -d meteor -o meteor

# get meteor db url, username, and password
meteor mongo --url myapp.meteor.com

# -h = host, -d = database name (app domain), -p = password, folder = the path to the dumped db
mongorestore -u client -h c0.meteor.m0.mongolayer.com:27017 -d myapp_meteor_com -p 'password' folder/