mongorestore

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Utility to import a collection or database from a binary dump into a MongoDB instance.

Examples (4)

Import a BSON data dump from a directory to a MongoDB database

mongorestore --db database_name path/to/directory

Import a BSON data dump from a directory to a given database in a MongoDB server host, running at a given port, with user authentication (user will be prompted for password)

mongorestore --host database_host:port --db database_name --username username path/to/directory --password

Import a collection from a BSON file to a MongoDB database

mongorestore --db database_name path/to/file

Import a collection from a BSON file to a given database in a MongoDB server host, running at a given port, with user authentication (user will be prompted for password)

mongorestore --host database_host:port --db database_name --username username path/to/file --password

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