Mongodb dump, restore, import, export

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The counterpart to mongodump is mongorestore (and the counterpart to mongoimport is mongoexport) -- the major difference is in the format of the files created and understood by the tools (dump and restore read and write BSON files; export and import deal with text file formats: JSON, CSV, TSV.

If you've already run mongodump, you should have a directory named dump, with a subdirectory for each database that was dumped, and a file in those directories for each collection. You can then restore this with a command like:

mongorestore -h host.com:port -d dbname_test -u username -p password dump/dbname/

Assuming that you want to put the contents of the database dbname into a new database called dbname_test.

Src: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8070298/how-to-import-dumped-mongodb

```
mongorestore --username your_username --password your_password --authenticationDatabase admin -d  database_name  dir/to/bson_json
```