Simple backup and restore

Command summary (from the command line):

• mongodump
• mongorestore

Hopefully there is no need to stress how important it is to maintain a regular backup schedule. That being said, it is worth mentioning that doing a simple restore can actually cause problems in a properly constructed system of replicas or shards (covered later on in this chapter). In this section, we will address a simple backup of the MongoDB database that's residing on a single server.

mongodump

A backup can be as simple as issuing the command mongodump. This command will create a binary export of either a mongod or a mongos instance. Here is the output for the MongoDB instance, which is used to demonstrate concepts in this...