How to use the dumped data by mongodump?

Question

I have used mongodump to dump my database of mongodb, it created some bson files under dump/mydb

But I don\'t know how to use them. I tried

Answer 1

I am using mongodump, mongorestore for daily backups and restoring from backup. I have two .bat files:
First, for backup, where you need just specify host database name and backup folder:

SET host=localhost:27020
SET dbNameToDump=MyDB
SET backupsFolder=Backups

mongodump.exe --host %host% --db %dbNameToDump%

SET date="%date:~10,4%-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%.%time:~0,2%-%time:~3,2%"
cd %backupsFolder%
md %date%

xcopy /e ..\dump %date%

rmdir /s /q ..\dump

Above bat file create folder with name like this 2011-03-31.11-17(yyyy-MM-dd.hh-ss) in folder Backups with dumped collections from specified database. In files explorer it looks like so:

Second bat file i use for retore specified dumped files(here you also need specify database name and folder with dumped files):

SET host=localhost:27020
SET dbNameToRestore=MyDB
SET restoreFolder=Restore

mongorestore.exe --host %host% --db %dbNameToRestore% %restoreFolder%

In files explorer:

In additional, i am using windows schedule to automate backup process.

Hope above information will be useful for someone.