Is there a simple way to export the data from a meteor deployed app?

Question

Is there a simple way to export the data from a meteor deployed app?

So, for example, if I had deployed an app named test.meteor.com...

How could I easily d

Answer 1

I made this simple Rakefile to copy the live db to local.

To restore the live db to my local machine I just do...

rake copy_live_db

Replace myapp with the name of your meteor.com - e.g myapp.meteor.com.

require 'rubygems'
require 'open-uri'

desc "Backup the live db to local ./dump folder"
task :backup_live_db do
  uri = `meteor mongo myapp --url`
  pass = uri.match(/client:([^@]+)@/)[1]
  puts "Using live db password: #{pass}"
  `mongodump -h meteor.m0.mongolayer.com:27017 -d myapp_meteor_com -u client -p #{pass}`
end


desc "Copy live database to local"
task :copy_live_db => :backup_live_db do
  server =  `meteor mongo --url`
  uri = URI.parse(server)
  `mongorestore --host #{uri.host} --port #{uri.port} --db meteor --drop dump/myapp_meteor_com/`
end

desc "Restore last backup"
task :restore do
  server =  `meteor mongo --url`
  uri = URI.parse(server)
  `mongorestore --host #{uri.host} --port #{uri.port} --db meteor --drop dump/myapp_meteor_com/`
end