mongorestore

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 after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid Aborted I've successfully accomplished this operation before and this strange behavior has never occurred. What do I need to do to fix this? On my distro "locale-gen" was not installed and it turned out all I had to do is set the LC_ALL environment

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 another mongodb? Justin Jenkins You need to use mongorestore , not mongoimport ... which is used for things like importing json, or csv, etc. From the back-up-with-mongodump docs: mongodump reads data from a MongoDB database and creates high fidelity BSON files which the mongorestore tool can use to populate a MongoDB database. mongodump and