Export and Import a MongoDB Database
Learn and practice utilities to export and import a MongoDB database or a MongoDB collection.
In this lesson, we’ll learn how to export and import a MongoDB database. MongoDB provides command-line tools mongodump and mongorestore to export and import a MongoDB database, respectively. These tools are installed by default with the MongoDB Database Tools package.
Export a MongoDB database
The mongodump command-line tool can export the following:
- One database
- All the databases
- Specific collection of a database
Dump all the databases
The following command is used to dump all the databases.
mongodump
This creates a dump folder in the same directory you run the command in. The dump contains folders for each database.
If authorization is enabled, we provide a username with mongodump.
mongodump -u <username>
This will prompt us to enter a password. If the password is entered successfully, it dumps all the databases.
Dump specific database
Run the below command to dump ...