Mongodump

mongodump reads data from a MongoDB database and creates high fidelity BSON files which the mongorestore tool can use to populate a MongoDB database

https://docs.mongodb.com/database-tools/mongodump/

Database backup:

• mongodump --archive=test.20150715.archive --db your_db_name (Use: show dbs to view available DBs)

Sharded Clusters

Backups created with mongodump do not maintain the atomicity guarantees of transactions across shards

Related commands

• mysqldump
• mariabackup
• mongorestore

See also

• MongoDB: MongoDB Compass, mongo, mongodump, mongorestore, mongoexport, MongoDB changelog, MongoDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator, GridFS, MongoDB Atlas, MongoDB replication, Ops Manager, docker logs mongodb, show collections, show dbs, mongo --help
• MongoDB: mongodump, PostgreSQL: pg_dump, MariaDB: mysqldump