Can't create backup mongodump with --db. Authentication failed

Question

When I create backup of all databases in MongoDB (version 3):

mongodump --username bacUser --password 12345

It\'s OK. But when I try to cre

Answer 1

Use signle Quotation around password. if you are using any special character in your password. That will solve your issue. Use following command.

mongodump -d database_name -u userName -p 'password' --out directory_name