Minimum permission for using mongodump (to dump a specific db)

Question

We can\'t seem to find any conclusive document on what permissions (user roles) are required to run mongodump on a specific db.

Say I have a db named

Answer 1

Fortunately mongodump 3.0 is accepting options to skip certain collections.

This solved my problem not having admin access to the database to tweak permissions. Please keep in mind that you will not create full backups anymore.

mongodump --excludeCollection=system.indexes

or

mongodump --excludeCollectionsWithPrefix=system