MongoDB Administrator's Guide

How to do it...

1. Take a backup of the mockdata collection:

mongodump --gzip -d mydb -c mockdata --out /backups/dump

2. This should give the following output:

2017-10-04T12:50:37.000+0000 writing mydb.mockdata2017-10-04T12:50:37.737+0000 done dumping mydb.mockdata (100000 documents)

3. Examine the backup directory:

ls -al dump/mydb/

4. This should give the following output:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2836312 Oct 4 12:50 mockdata.bson.gz-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100 Oct 4 12:50 mockdata.metadata.json.gz

5. Execute the bsondump utility to view the contents of the BSON file:

zcat /backups/dump/mydb/mockdata.bson.gz | bsondump --pretty

6. This should give the following output:

<-- output truncated -->{        "_id": {                "$oid": "59913879d574be2148cf8294"        }, "first_name": ...