How to mongodump from OpenShift and mongorestore locally on MongoDB 2.4.9?

Question

I just did it myself (since RockMongo export and import was damaged), so just post it here.

Please note that this was for MonoDB verison 2.4.9 with the corresponding versions of mongodump and mongorestore .

Answer 1

First read the documentation related to your versions, backup, make sure that the solution below applies to your scenario, etc.

http://docs.mongodb.org/v2.4/reference/program/mongodump/
http://docs.mongodb.org/v2.4/reference/program/mongorestore/

Ssh in

 rhc ssh [app-name] cd app-root/repo/ 

Check which version of mongodump you have:

 mongodump --version mongodump version 2.4.9 

mongodump

In the command below, * ALL * databases will be reset.

 mongodump --host $OPENSHIFT_MONGODB_DB_HOST:$OPENSHIFT_MONGODB_DB_PORT --username $OPENSHIFT_MONGODB_DB_USERNAME --password $OPENSHIFT_MONGODB_DB_PASSWORD 

Print Dump Folder

 zip -r dump.zip dump 

Exit SSH

 exit 

SCP loading

(Replace the environment variable below with the actual value).

 scp [e-mail] :~/app-root/repo/dump.zip /var/www/html 

SSH back and delete dump files

 rhc ssh [app-name] cd app-root/repo/ rm -r dump rm -r dump.zip 

At the local command prompt, change to the directory where you downloaded the zip file:

 cd /var/www/html 

Unzip the dump folder

 unzip dump.zip -d dump 

See which version of mongorestore you have, and that everything is compatible:

 mongorestore --version mongorestore version 2.4.9 

At this point, I deleted all the local * relevant * databases in RockMongo so that the recovery process creates them from scratch.

mongorestore

 mongorestore dump 

The default host and port used are localhost and 27017 .