MongoDB Help

Install MongoDB

See posts/post-install-distrib-ubuntu or posts/post-install-distrib-debian

Run MongoDB

The MongoDB instance stores its data files in the /var/lib/mongo and its log files in /var/log/mongo, and run using the mongod user account. If you change the user that runs the MongoDB process, you must modify the access control rights to the /var/lib/mongo and /var/log/mongo directories.

Start MongoDB

sudo /etc/init.d/mongodb start

You can verify that mongod has started successfully by checking the contents of the log file at /var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log.

Stop MongoDB

sudo /etc/init.d/mongodb stop

Restart MongoDB

sudo /etc/init.d/mongodb restart

Restore & Import

For full fidelity, please use mongodump (see link in sources)

Dumping / restoring

Example with bart project

mongodump --db bart

Exports dumped data as .bson in ./dump/bart/ :

dump/
└── bart
    ├── data.bson
    ├── file.bson
    ├── gamme.bson
    ├── produit.bson
    ├── system.indexes.bson
    └── website.bson

Restoring a database using dumps

mongorestore --verbose --drop --db bart dump/bart/

To restore an imported dump

mongorestore --verbose --drop  dump/bart/