Export a Mongo DB database

export-mongo.md

Export a mongo Database

first step is to list all databases. Get into the mongo terminal with mongo and run the follwing command to show all the DBs

show dbs

Show collections

use databaseName
show collectons

Then find the name of the DB.

Export a single collection as json.

mongoexport --db databaseName --collection collectionName --out output.json

Dump DB

to export the entire DB run

mongodump -d mydatabasename -o ./folderToExport