How do I create a MongoDB dump of my database?

Question

What command do I use and run?

Answer 1

To create a MongoDB dump of my database you can use mongodump:

$ ./mongodump --host prod.example.com 

connected to: prod.example.com 

all dbs 

DATABASE: log to dump/log 

log.errors to dump/log/errors.bson 

713 objects 

log.analytics to dump/log/analytics.bson 

234810 objects 

DATABASE: blog to dump/blog 

blog.posts to dump/log/blog.posts.bson 

59 objects 

DATABASE: admin to dump/admin

Answer 2

For dumping your database for backup you call this command on your terminal

mongodump --db database_name --collection collection_name

And for importing your backup file to mongodb you can use the following command on your terminal

mongorestore --db database_name path_to_bson_file

Answer 3

With the right combination of $lookup, $project, and $match, you can join multiple tables on multiple parameters. You can join two collections in Mongo by using lookup which is offered in 3.2 version. In your case, the query would be

db.comments.aggregate({

    $lookup:{

        from:"users",

        localField:"uid",

        foreignField:"uid",

        as:"users_comments"

    }

})

or you can also join with respect to the users, refer the following commands:

db.users.aggregate({

    $lookup:{

        from:"comments",

        localField:"uid",

        foreignField:"uid",

        as:"users_comments"

    }

})