Backup and Restore Mongo Databases

Complete guide of how to backup and restore a database or a collection from mongodb

MongoDB is one of the most popular databases we have right now. It is currently been used with a lot of projects. As the usage increases, we start facing issues like taking backup and restoring it. So today, we will learn which tool to use for backup and restore & how to use them.

In this tutorial, we will take hot backup. i.e You can connect to a running instance of MongoDB and take a backup even when users are using the database.

Prerequisites

• Make sure you have installed MongoDB and it is running.

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MongoDB version I am using

Tools we will use

• Mongorestore
• Mongodump
• Mongoimport

⚜️ The list

1. Backup a Whole database
2. Backup a Single collections
3. Restore Whole database
4. Restore Single collection

⚜️ Backup Section

Backup a Whole Database

mongodump -d devdb -o mongoBackups

❗️ devdb is the name of the database and mongoBackups is the directory in which I want to dump the database

Backup a Single Collection

mongodump -d devdb -o mongoBackups --collection vehicles

❗️ devdb is the name of the database and mongoBackups is the directory in which I want to dump the database and vehicles is the name of the collection which I want to backup.

⚜️ Restore Section

Restore Whole Database

mongorestore -d devdb mongoBackups/devdb

❗️ devdb is the name of the database into which we will restore data and mongoBackups is the directory in which we dumped the database devdb

Restore Single Collection

mongorestore -d devdb -c vehicles devdb/devdb/vehicles.bson

❗️ devdb is the name of the database into which we will restore data and vehicles is the name of the collection & then the path of the .bson file.

🔅 If you have collection in .json then mongorestore will through an error. In that case, you have to use mongoimport i.e :

mongoimport --db devdb --collection vehicles --file vehicles.json --jsonArray

That’s it!!

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