By Stealth
I don’t need to download current database. I need a delete data backup from a day or two ago. Also I certainly don’t need to restore current database from a backup. So, is there a way I could download just the backup?
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Hello,
You can run the following command to export a backup of your MongoDB:
mongoexport --uri "cluster-connection-string" --db newdb -c restaurants --out newdbexport.json
Then you could set that up to run as a cron job so that it could run every day:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-cron-to-automate-tasks-ubuntu-1804
Hope that this helps.
Best,
Bobby
Heya,
At the moment there is no option to directly download a database snapshot. However you can use third-party tools to downloaf your dabase.
To export data from a MongoDB database, you can use mongoexport to export specific collections data, or you can use mongodump to export a binary (BSON) full database backup.
You can check this article:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/mongodb/how-to/import-collections/
Hope that this helps!
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