Restore

Backups can be restored using MongoDB’s mongorestore. Similar to mongodump it is executed on the command line. For more detailed information on mongorestore see the official documentation:

http://docs.mongodb.org/v2.4/reference/program/mongorestore/

You will need to use the Effektif MongoDB user credentials again to overwrite the contents of the Effektif databases.

We recommend running mongorestore with the parameter –drop which will remove every collection (table) from the database before it is restored.

Windows

The mongorestore.exe can be found in your MongoDB installation directory: $MONGO_HOME\bin\mongorestore.exe. If you followed the instructions in this guide to setup the database, you can execute the following command on the command line:

C:\MongoDB\bin\mongorestore.exe --drop -u effektif -p <EffektifUserPassword> C:\path\to\dumps

Replace the user credentials with the ones you have chosen during the setup and the directory with the one where you store your backups.

Debian

Using Debian, the command to restore a backup stored in /path/to/dump would look like this:

mongorestore --drop -u effektif -p <EffektifUserPassword> /path/to/dump

As you can see, you have to fill in the credentials of the Effektif MongoDB user again. Furthermore, you need to specify where the backup is located.