How To Get a MONGODB Dump

Create MongoDB Dump

Ask for MongoDB dump from the customer. If they are not familiar, ask them to run the following command to get the MongoDB dump

1. ssh to MongoDB server
2. Run the following command to export rev database
   1. mongodump --db rev --out rev_<TODAYS_DATE>
   2. The above command will create a folder called "rev_<TODAYS_DATE>"
3. Ask the customer to zip the dump folder "rev_<TODAYS_DATE>" and provide it to us
   1. zip -r rev.zip rev_<TODAYS_DATE>

Can use SCP to grab file
 

Import MongoDB Dump

Once you the MongoDB dump zip from the customer, import into a local (or QA) MongoDB server

1. Copy the MongoDB zip file to the MongoDB server
2. ssh to MongoDB server
3. Unzip the dump zip into a temporary folder
   1. unzip rev.zip
   2. The above command will create the folder rev_<TODAYS_DATE> (from the MongoDB dump instructions)
4. Run the following command to import rev database into a database called "rev_<CUSTOMER_NAME>
   1. mongorestore --db rev_<CUSTOMER_NAME> rev_<TODAYS_DATE>/rev