So I have been playing around with meteor and mongodb and have a working version set up on my localhost. Unfortunately, when I do meteor deploy xxx.meteor.com it doesn't deploy my database as well.
How do I do this?
Meter deploy only deploys a fresh database. To copy over your data you have to use mongorestore with your local mongodb dump, which you can make with mongodump (docs)
So first dump your database somewhere
mongodump --host localhost:3002
Get your mongodb`s credentials by running (in your project dir):
meteor mongo myapp.meteor.com --url
This will give you your database details in the form:
mongodb://username:password#host:port/databasename
Then you can plug these into mongorestore (docs) and restore your local database over
mongorestore -u username -p password -h host:port -d databasename ~/desktop/location_of_your_mongodb_dump
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I am trying to restore a MongoDB on an EC2 instance. I am currently running Mongo 4.0. I am restoring a .tgz, which I then unzip, and it contains a directory with all of my files. I previously used this command:
sudo mongorestore --db newDB mongoDump-2018-07-25-0200/viboDB/
Now that I am trying to update our database, I am getting the following error.
building a list of collections to restore from mongoDump-2018-07-25/0200 dir
Failed: viboBI2.Songs: error reading database: command listCollections requires authentication
I have logged into the mongo shell, and used db.auth() to authenticate as an admin. I have tried restarting mongo as well. Any help would be appreciated!
For restoring the Database you need to provide authentication.
mongorestore -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD --authenticationDatabase admin -d dbNAME PATH/TO/DIRECTORY
you can also provide host and port by adding -h and --port
We have a remote MongoDB server and we have mongodump data on a local developer's machine. What is the best way to restore the remote MongoDB server data with the local data? Is there a mongo command that we can use?
Alright so we did this in two steps. I think you can do it in one step, with just mongorestore.
First we moved the data from the local machine to the remote machine with the scp command:
scp <path-to-mongofile> <remote-host>:<absolute-file-path>
then we ssh'd into the remote mongod server, and used mongorestore to restore the db
mongorestore --host=$HOST --port=$PORT -u $ADMIN_USER -p $PSWD --db <your-db> <absolute-path-to-restore-db> --authenticationDatabase "admin"
but I think the first scp command is redundant. In fact, if you cannot ssh into the server running mongod, then you will have to use the mongorestore command directly from the local developer's machine.
Just use mongorestore but point it towards the remote server, such as:
$ mongorestore -h ds01234567.mlab.com:12345 -d heroku_fj33kf -u <user> -p <password> <input db directory>
From MongoLab's docs
I have a web application with production data running on a Cidar stack in Heroku. The production data is stored in a MongoDB and I use MongoHQ to manage it in production. I'd like to download the production data to my local machine so I can run my web app locally with production data for debugging purposes. I'm still relatively new to MongoDB, so after many attempts, I've had no success.
Is there a way to download MongoDB data (collections) from Heroku to a local MongoDB I have on my local machine?
I figured it out, thanks to this blog post: http://stevespiga.rel.li/mongodump-mongorestore.html
Here a summary of the solution:
I ran the command: heroku config | grep "MONGOHQ". This gave me output of the form:
MONGOHQ_URL:mongodb://heroku:veryLongPasswordString#somewhere.mongohq.com:88888/app123456.
This can be interpreted as:
MONGOHQ_URL:mongodb://username:password#host:port/path
Then I dumped the production db to a local directory by running:
mongodump --db <path> --host <host> --port <port> --username <username> --password <password> --out <folder for dump>.
Example:
mongodump --db app123456 --host somewhere.mongohq.com --port 88888 --username heroku --password veryLongPasswordString --out ./testDump.
The next step is to take the dumped data and restore it to your local database:
mongorestore ./testdump.
Note, this assumes that you do NOT have a local db of the same name as the dumped db before you restore. If need be you can rename the db by following the steps outlined in this stackoverflow post.
I hope this helps!
If you open up the MongoHQ dashboard ($ heroku addons:open mongohq) there's an option to create a backup and download it from there.
I have a MongoDB database that resides on a remote server machine whose IP address is 192.168.1.20 on a local network. For development and testing purposes, and since I am not allowed to modify or delete the database on the server for security purposes, I want to copy the database on my local machine for my personal use.
Can anyone please tell me, how do I achieve this?
I do this by creating a dump of the remote db to my local machine, which I then restore:
Make sure you have a mongo instance up and running (eg. run mongod.exe from your bin folder in a terminal window. On my windows computer that's C:\mongodb\bin)
Make a dump from remote db: Open a new terminal window, move to the bin folder again, run:
mongodump -h example.host.com --port 21018 -d dbname --username username --password yourpass
(Change the parameters to suit your own situation.)
Restore the dumped database: Once the dump has been made, run the following command so that you have a local db:
mongorestore -d theNameYouWantForYourLocalDB dump\nameOfRemoteDB
(replace nameOfRemoteDB with the name of the remote db, the same as in previous command, and replace theNameYouWantForYourLocalDB with the name that you want your new local db to have)
There is copy database command which I guess should be good fit for your need.
db.copyDatabase("DATABASENAME", "DATABASENAME", "localhost:27018");
Alternatively, you can just stop MongoDb, copy the database files to another server and run an instance of MongoDb there.
EDIT 2020-04-25
Quote from MongoDB documentation
MongoDB 4.0 deprecates the copydb and the clone commands and their mongo shell helpers db.copyDatabase() and db.cloneDatabase().
As alternatives, users can use mongodump and mongorestore (with the mongorestore options --nsFrom and --nsTo) or write a script using the drivers.
Reference here
This should be a comment to the answer of #malla, but I don't have enough reputation to comment so I'm posting it here for other's reference.
In step 2, When you are trying to dump file from a remote server, remember to add out option so that you can restore locally later: (in my first try, I didn't add it and it failed, saying dump\db_name was not found).I'm not sure whether my way efficient or not. But it worked for me.
Step 2:
mongodump -h example.host.com --port 21018 -d dbname --username username --password yourpass --out <path_you_want_to_dump>
Step 3:
mongorestore -d theNameYouWantForYourLocalDB \<path_you_want_to_dump> + nameOfRemoteDB
The mongoexport command:
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/import-export/
Or, mongodump command:
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/program/mongodump/
mongodb has commandline tools for importing and exporting. Take a look at mongodump --collection collection --db test and mongorestore --collection people --db accounts dump/accounts/
http://docs.mongodb.org/v2.2/reference/mongodump/
http://docs.mongodb.org/v2.2/reference/mongorestore/
this even works over the network
You can use the mongoexport command to copy the database to your local machine.
Perhaps I have a complete misunderstanding of how mongodump is supposed to work, but I can't seem to get it to do anything besides returning a JavaScript execution failed: SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier error.
Here's what I'm doing:
Mongod is running
I want to backup a database called "mydb"
I'm inside the mongo shell
I tried the command mongodump --db mydb and get the above error
I've tried both mongodump and mongoexport, both have the same issue
What am I doing wrong here?
Try the following it will work
i.Open the terminal
ii. Enter mongodump --collection collectionname --db dbname (Don't go inside mongo shell);
iii.If default port is different(other than 27017) then go for the following command
mongodump --host mongodb1.example.net --port 37017 --username user --password pass --out /opt/backup/mongodump-2011-10-24
mongodump,mongorestore is not commands of mongodb shell. It is separate mongodb utlity. You can find it under mongodb bin folder.
Usually you will need to add all mongodb utilities to the system Path variable and after this easy backup/restore databases from any place in the command line or in the terminal.
Your command looks mongodump --db mydb good if your databases in on default port(27017).
I faced the problem in taking mongo dump and I also wanted to store the dump to S3. Finally I ended up with a bash script to take mongo dump and store it to S3. I used mongodump to take backup.
mongodump -h $MONGO_HOST:$MONGO_PORT -d $MONGO_DATABASE
Where $MONGO_HOST,$MONGO_PORT and $MONGO_DATABASE are bash variables for host, port and database-name respectively.
You can also use --username user --password pass option for mongodump command if you have username and password setup on the database.
Here is the script to take mongodb dump and store it to S3 with a cron.