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Marius
Marius

Reputation: 597

Cloning MongoDB database with MongoDB Compass

Is there a way to Clone a MongoDB database and its data with MongoDB Compass to my local server? I do not want to corrupt the dev environment by accident so I want to test things out locally, but I can't find a solution for that on MongoDB Compass.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 18145

Answers (3)

Corina Roca
Corina Roca

Reputation: 546

As pointed out for Gustavo Garcia, MongodDB is not very friendly for this, and so far I was able to clone and export. But is not very well documented and I posted my recent answer here (mongodb want export collections missing semicolon)

Basically I did: mongodump --archive="<the-new-db-name>" --db=<the-db-to-copy>--host="localhost" --port=<e.g:27017> --username=<your-username> --authenticationDatabase=admin from my shell (replace the values between triangle brackets with your own details) .

Note: If you want it as an output file (instead of archived one), you will need to change the "archive=" statement by "--out="

Note2: I am ussing MongoDB: 7.0.5 and Mongosh: 2.1.4

Upvotes: 0

C&#39;Reality Education
C&#39;Reality Education

Reputation: 59

To clone an existing database to a new one, use the mongodump and mongorestore commands.

To dump DB:

mongodump -d <database_name> -o <directory_backup>

To clone DB:

mongorestore -d <new_database_name> <directory_backup>/<database_name>

Upvotes: 4

Haniel Baez
Haniel Baez

Reputation: 1690

MongoDB Compass has a great documentation explaining how you can import/export one collection at the time for both JSON and CSV files.

I think that there is no better answer than the link to the documentation: https://docs.mongodb.com/compass/current/import-export#import-data-into-a-collection

Upvotes: 5

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