How do I create a MongoDB dump of my database?

Question

What command do I use and run?

Answer 1

cmd -->

C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.2\bin>mongodump.exe --db Dintest

Answer 2

You need to open command prompt as an administrator in a folder where your Mongo is installed (in my case: C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\bin). If you want to dump your whole database, you can just use:

mongodump --db database_name

You also have posibilities to dump only certain collection(s), or to dump all but certain collection(s).

If you want to dump only one collection (for example users):

mongodump  --db database_name --collection users

If you want to dump all but users collection:

mongodump  --db database_name --excludeCollection=users

It is also possible to output the dump to an archive file:

mongodump --archive=test.archive --db database_name

Answer 3

To dump your database for backup you call this command on your terminal

mongodump --db database_name --collection collection_name

To import your backup file to mongodb you can use the following command on your terminal

mongorestore --db database_name path_to_bson_file

Answer 4

Below command will work to take dump of mongo db .

mongodump -d -o

On Windows : try this one where c:\mongodump is dump file location , It will create metadata in json, and backup in bson format

C:\MongoDB\bin>mongodump -d -o c:\mongodump

Answer 5

If your database in the local system. Then you type the below command. for Linux terminal

mongodump -h SERVER_NAME:PORT -d DATABASE_NAME

If database user and password are there then you below code.

mongodump -h SERVER_NAME:PORT -d DATABASE_NAME -u DATABASE_USER -p PASSWORD

This worked very well in my Linux terminal.

Answer 6

 Use -v to see progress of backup data
    mongodump -v --db dbname --out /pathforbackup/NewFolderforBackupData

 you can use it for restore also
    mongorestore -v --db dbname --drop /pathforbackup/NewFolderforBackupData/dbname

with multile v like -vvvv you will get more information