Mongorestore to a different database

Question

In MongoDB, is it possible to dump a database and restore the content to a different database? For example like this:

mongodump --db db1 --out dumpdir
mongore         


        

Answer 1

mongodump --db=DB_NAME --out=/path-to-dump
mongorestore --nsFrom "DB_NAME.*" --nsTo "NEW_DB_NAME.*" /path-to-dump