mongorestore command replace existing records?

Question

Is there a way for mongorestore to replace the records existing in the database instead of skipping it which is the default behavior ?

I\'m currently using the lates

Answer 1

I have solved this using

1. restore the collection and write the output to file (errors)

mongorestore --db database -c collection ~/path_to_bson > output.txt 2>&1

2. filter out the lines containing - E11000 duplicate key error collection ...ObjectId(...)
3. then using multi-edit tool (in my case sublime) convert those lines to db.collection.remove({_id: ObjectId(...)})
4. restore the database again.