How do I create a MongoDB dump of my database?

Question

What command do I use and run?

Answer 1

You need to open command prompt as an administrator in a folder where your Mongo is installed (in my case: C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\bin). If you want to dump your whole database, you can just use:

mongodump --db database_name

You also have posibilities to dump only certain collection(s), or to dump all but certain collection(s).

If you want to dump only one collection (for example users):

mongodump  --db database_name --collection users

If you want to dump all but users collection:

mongodump  --db database_name --excludeCollection=users

It is also possible to output the dump to an archive file:

mongodump --archive=test.archive --db database_name