How do I create a MongoDB dump of my database?

Question

What command do I use and run?

Answer 1

If your database in the local system. Then you type the below command. for Linux terminal

mongodump -h SERVER_NAME:PORT -d DATABASE_NAME

If database user and password are there then you below code.

mongodump -h SERVER_NAME:PORT -d DATABASE_NAME -u DATABASE_USER -p PASSWORD

This worked very well in my Linux terminal.