mongorestore

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

• 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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