I've downloaded a backup of a Mongo database from a production application I have hosted on Mlab.com
I want to import that database to my local meteor application so I can test some changes to the architecture of the collections on the real application data without breaking the production app.
Is there a way to do this?
Much appreciated
You will need to install Mongo locally on your machine to get the utilities you need, which is basically mongorestore. The command will look something like this:
sudo mongorestore --db newdb --drop /var/backups/mongobackups/01-20-16/newdb/
Meteor can connect to your database using this environment variable:
MONGO_URL=mongo://localhost:27017/newdb
There is an article about it for more detail here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-back-up-restore-and-migrate-a-mongodb-database-on-ubuntu-14-04
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mongodump was used long time ago to create a backup, now in order to restore the database for a Meteor app, this command was used:
ais2> mongorestore C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\
PS C:\Users\empl1\Documents\meteor\apps\ais2> mongorestore C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\
preparing collections to restore from
reading metadata for dbais2.dataTeckAllMatchCol from C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\dbais2\dataTeckAllMatchCol.metadata.json
reading metadata for dbais2.makeModelCol from C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\dbais2\makeModelCol.metadata.json
reading metadata for dbais2.usageCol from C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\dbais2\usageCol.metadata.json
reading metadata for dbais2.vehiclesDetailsCol from C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\dbais2\vehiclesDetailsCol.metadata.json
restoring dbais2.dataTeckAllMatchCol from C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\dbais2\dataTeckAllMatchCol.bson
restoring dbais2.makeModelCol from C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\dbais2\makeModelCol.bson
restoring dbais2.usageCol from C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\dbais2\usageCol.bson
restoring dbais2.vehiclesDetailsCol from C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\dbais2\vehiclesDetailsCol.bson
finished restoring dbais2.dataTeckAllMatchCol (11705 documents, 0 failures)
Since I have a directory "dbais2" with all the database files located in the above path.
In a new shell ais2> meteor mongo opens a mongo shell, but show dbs does not show the "dbais2". How can I use the newly restored database? or it was not restored correctly? if so. how to restore it correctly?
Thanks
When you run mongorestore as is, it will connect to the mongo instance running on port 27017 on your local machine (if any). That's what you would use in production. Since the restore succeeded, it must be that you have such an instance running. In that case, run mongo ais2 to connect to that instance and db.
In development, meteor runs its own mongo instance on port 3001 (assuming you used meteor on the default port 3000). When you run meteor mongo that is the instance your shell will connect to. If you want to restore into that, then rerun your command with the port specified:
mongorestore --port=3001 -d meteor C:\Users\AAA\Documents\meteor\apps\dump\dump\
After that you should see your data in the shell opened by meteor mongo. Note that in this command I'm also overriding the database name, so that the data will be imported into the database used by meteor in development (also called meteor).
Hello I have an ubuntu 14.04 server that is running mongodb 2.4.14. I need to move the mongo instance to a new server. I have installed mongo 3.4.2 on the new server and need to move the databases over. I am pretty new with mongo. I have 2 databases that are pretty big but when I do a mongo dump the file is nowhere near the site of the databases that mongo is showing.I cannot figure out how to get mongoexport to work. What would be the best way to move those databases? If possible can we just export the data from mongo and then import it?
You'll need to give more information on your issue with mongodump and what mongodump parameters you were using.
Since you are doing a migration, you'll want to use mongodump and not mongoexport. mongoexport only outputs a JSON/CSV format of a collection. Because of this, mongoexport cannot retain certain datatypes that exist in BSON and thus MongoDB does not suggest that anyone uses mongoexport for full backups; this consideration is listed on mongo's site.
mongodump will be able to accurately create a backup of your database/collection that mongorestore will be able to restore that dump to your new server.
If you haven't already, check out Back Up and Restore with MongoDB Tools
I want to create a backup and restore in Meteor.js, but I don't have any
solution to create a backup and restore MongoDB database with Meteor.js.
I need some Guide line to do this.
Restore datatabase : mongorestore --port --db .
backup/dump : mongoimport/mo
To connect to the Mongo database for your local (or inner) mongodb of meteor, enter in cmd (in the folder of your project):
meteor mongo
checkout also :
Is there a simple way to export the data from a meteor deployed app?
I am new in Meteorjs and i am using mongo db which comes with the meteor package.
I have made one small meteor application using mongodb and now i want to take backup of the mongo db database. I have seen many web sites and still i am not able to backup my data base. Everyone explained the same thing that in mongo db folder use mongodump and mongostore but when i use mongodump and mongostore on my terminal then it displays something like 'mongodump' is not an internal or external source command. Can u please help me in finding out the solution.
I have found that the easiest way to backup your database (or move it between meteor installations for that matter) is to simple copy the files in .meteor\local\db
Then you don't have to worry about all that mongodb dump stuff. Simple.
I have separate development and production MongoDB servers and I want to keep actual data in development server for sometime. What I should use for it: mongodump, mongoimport or something else?
Clarification: I want to copy data from production to development.
If it's a one time-thing
and you want fine control over parameters such as which collections to sync, you should use:
mongodump to dump bson files of your Production DB to your local machine
mongorestore to then, retrieve the dumped BSON files in your Local DB
Otherwise you should check out mongo-sync
It's a script I wrote for my self when I had to constantly copy my Local MongoDB database to and from my Production DB for a Project (I know it's stupid).
Once you put your DB details in config.yml, you can start syncing using two simple commands:
./mongo-sync push # Push DB to Remote
./mongo-sync pull # Pull DB to Local
If you use it inside some project, it's a good idea to add config.yml to .gitignore
You can use the db.copyDatabase(...) or db.cloneDatabase(...) commands:
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Copy+Database+Commands
This is faster than mongodump / mongorestore because it skips creating the bson representation on disk.
When you want the dev database to look exactly like the production database, you can just copy the files. I am currently running a setup where I synchronize my MongoDB database between my desktop and my notebook with dropbox - even that works flawless.