MongoDB Administrator's Guide

How to do it...

1. Create a directory to store the backups:

mkdir /backups/

2. Switch to the directory and execute the mongodump utility:

cd /backups/

3. Execute the command:

mongodump

4. Your output should be similar to this:

2017-10-04T03:26:34.251+0000 writing mydb.mockdata2017-10-04T03:26:34.459+0000 done dumping mydb.mockdata (100000 documents)

5. Examine the dump directory:

ls -al dump/

6. You should see an output similar to this:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 4 03:29 mydb

7. Inspect the subdirectory:

ls -ahl dump/mydb/

8. You should see an output similar to this:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13M Oct 4 03:27 mockdata.bson-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 85 Oct 4 03:27 mockdata.metadata.json

9. Remove the dump directory:

rm -rf /backups/dump

10. Execute mongodump ...