Copying collection from local database to remote server

[Yaroslav Kyrpych]

Hi,

I was hoping to use mongodump to copy collection from local database to remote server. However, I read on mongodb web-site that "mongodump does not dump the content of the local database." http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/program/mongodump/

Is there a way to copy collection from local database to remote? If so, could someone share example?

I wanted to use replication but  it seems to have the same issue - it's made to work from remote to local, not the other way. Plus, I don't have local always online.

Thank you,

Yaroslav

[Asya Kamsky]

If you specify 

mongodump -d local -c <collection-name> 

then mongodump will dump the specified collection from the local DB.

What collection from local do you want to copy?   Generally the point of "local" db is to use it only for things that are local to this instance.

Asya

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[Yaroslav Kyrpych]

I have collection called "returns" within database called "financial data" (database has other collections but I don't need to more them), it's all stored on local PC, I would like to move the collection (not entire database) to the database also called "financial data" that's located on remote server (VPS hosting). Could you let me know if it's possible at all, and if so, how to do it.

 

Thank you,

 

Yaroslav

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[Asya Kamsky]

Ah, when you said local I thought you meant "local" db name.

You can ignore the comment you read in the docs - when it says
"mongodump does not dump 'local' database" it means the database
called 'local' - your database is called something else, so just
specify the name of the DB and collection you want and mongodump will
dump it.

Asya


On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Yaroslav Kyrpych

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