MONGODUMP(1)

NAME
mongodump - the Mongo dump tool

SYNOPSIS
mongodump [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

mongodump is a tool to output a binary representation of a database. It is mostly used for doing hot backups of a database.

OPTIONS

--help
    show usage information

-h, --host HOST
    server to connect to (default HOST=localhost)

-d, --db DATABASE
    database to use

-c, --c COLLECTION
    collection to use

-o, --out FILE
    output file, if not specified, stdout is used

--dbpath PATH
    directly access mongod data files in this path, instead of connecting to a mongod instance

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2007-2009 10gen

SEE ALSO
For more information, please refer to the MongoDB wiki, available at http://www.mongodb.org.

AUTHOR
Kristina Chodorow