How to backup and restore via mongodump tarballs.

[Chris Hoover]

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems that there is no way with mongodump to easily dump the entire database into a tarball.  Is there anyway to do this?  My current solution is rather cludgy and I'd like it to be easier to backup and restore.

I'm doing:

backups:

1.  mongo dump to directory

2.  tar up directory

3.  copy to archive server

restore:

1.  copy from archive server

2.  untar to file system

3.  run mongorestore

Ideally, I'd like it to be:

backups:

1.  mongodump | tar -cf - > backup file

2.  copy to archive server

restores:

1. copy from archive server

2.  tar -xOf <file> | mongorestore

Thanks,

Chris

[Scott Hernandez]

You are correct that you can't pipe into a compression program. The
issue is that mongodump just dumps bson files and there is no
delimiter between collections/files.

See this issue: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-5190

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