Restoring data to a different database name on same instance

[Capt.Safety]

In a test environment we would like to restore a backup to a different
database name for comparison reasons. Can this be done with the
current tools?

[Eliot Horowitz]

You can use mongodump and mongorestore to do this.
There was a bug when restoring indexes to a different database name
that was fixed in 1.7.4, but otherwise works fine all versions.

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[Capt.Safety]

Thanks for your response.

Had a bit of confusion with the docs, got it now.
thought -db was the db to restore from not the db to restore to.

So finally we found this was the command:
mongorestore --db=destination_db_name --username=user --password=pass
untared_backup_folder/dbname