drop whole database within a single command of restoring the dump of mongodb

Question

I am trying to restore the directory dump of mongodb.

i am doing

mongorestore --db mydb --drop path/to/mydb/dump

But both does not able to restore the state of my dump. Any new records are visible even after restoring the db.

But no error is shown on console.

Answer 1

I didn't see an answer and I had the same question today.

You can drop the database before with:

use <db>
db.dropDatabase()

Or you can only drop the collection with:

db.<collection>.drop()

The problem with your command could be that something misses, like the database which you authenticate against or the user or maybe another thing.

In my setup this works

mongorestore --username=<user> --db=<database> --authenticationDatabase=<database> --dir=<dumpdir> --drop

If your dump was zipped beforehand, you can add the --gzip flag in the end.

You can find all that in the documentation for dropping a database or in the documentation of dropping a whole database. But please be cautious with it.