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NAME
mongoexport - MongoDB
SYNOPSIS
mongoexport is a utility that produces a JSON or CSV export of data stored in a MongoDB
instance. See the "/administration/import-export" document for a more in depth usage
overview, and the "mongoimport" document for more information regarding the mongoimport
utility, which provides the inverse "importing" capability.
Note Do not use mongoimport and mongoexport for full-scale backups because they may not
reliably capture data type information. Use mongodump and mongorestore as described
in "/administration/backups" for this kind of functionality.
OPTIONS
mongoexport
--help Returns a basic help and usage text.
--verbose, -v
Increases the amount of internal reporting returned on the command line. Increase
the verbosity with the -v form by including the option multiple times, (e.g.
-vvvvv.)
--version
Returns the version of the mongoexport utility.
--host <hostname><:port>
Specifies a resolvable hostname for the mongod from which you want to export data.
By default mongoexport attempts to connect to a MongoDB process ruining on the
localhost port number 27017.
Optionally, specify a port number to connect a MongoDB instance running on a port
other than 27017.
To connect to a replica set, you can specify the replica set seed name, and a seed
list of set members, in the following format:
<replica_set_name>/<hostname1><:port>,<hostname2:<port>,...
--port <port>
Specifies the port number, if the MongoDB instance is not running on the standard
port. (i.e. 27017) You may also specify a port number using the mongoexport --host
command.
--ipv6 Enables IPv6 support that allows mongoexport to connect to the MongoDB instance
using an IPv6 network. All MongoDB programs and processes, including mongoexport,
disable IPv6 support by default.
--ssl New in version 2.4: MongoDB added support for SSL connections to mongod instances
in mongoexport.
Note SSL support in mongoexport is not compiled into the default distribution of
MongoDB. See /administration/ssl for more information on SSL and MongoDB.
Additionally, mongoexport does not support connections to mongod instances that
require client certificate validation.
Allows mongoexport to connect to mongod instance over an SSL connection.
--username <username>, -u <username>
Specifies a username to authenticate to the MongoDB instance, if your database
requires authentication. Use in conjunction with the mongoexport --password option
to supply a password.
--password <password>, -p <password>
Specifies a password to authenticate to the MongoDB instance. Use in conjunction
with the --username option to supply a username.
If you specify a --username without the --password option, mongoexport will prompt
for a password interactively.
--authenticationDatabase <dbname>
New in version 2.4.
Specifies the database that holds the user's (e.g --username) credentials.
By default, mongoexport assumes that the database specified to the --db argument
holds the user's credentials, unless you specify --authenticationDatabase.
See userSource, /reference/privilege-documents and /reference/user-privileges for
more information about delegated authentication in MongoDB.
--authenticationMechanism <name>
New in version 2.4.
Specifies the authentication mechanism. By default, the authentication mechanism is
MONGODB-CR, which is the MongoDB challenge/response authentication mechanism. In
the MongoDB Subscriber Edition, mongoexport also includes support for GSSAPI to
handle Kerberos authentication.
See /tutorial/control-access-to-mongodb-with-kerberos-authentication for more
information about Kerberos authentication.
--dbpath <path>
Specifies the directory of the MongoDB data files. If used, the --dbpath option
enables mongoexport to attach directly to local data files and insert the data
without the mongod. To run with --dbpath, mongoexport needs to lock access to the
data directory: as a result, no mongod can access the same path while the process
runs.
--directoryperdb
Use the --directoryperdb in conjunction with the corresponding option to mongod,
which allows mongoexport to export data into MongoDB instances that have every
database's files saved in discrete directories on the disk. This option is only
relevant when specifying the --dbpath option.
--journal
Allows mongoexport operations to access the durability journal to ensure that the
export is in a consistent state. This option is only relevant when specifying the
--dbpath option.
--db <db>, -d <db>
Use the --db option to specify the name of the database that contains the
collection you want to export.
--collection <collection>, -c <collection>
Use the --collection option to specify the collection that you want mongoexport to
export.
--fields <field1[,field2]>, -f <field1[,field2]>
Specify a field or number fields to include in the export. All other fields will be
excluded from the export. Comma separate a list of fields to limit the fields
exported.
--fieldFile <file>
As an alternative to "--fields" the --fieldFile option allows you to specify a file
(e.g. <file>`) to hold a list of field names to specify a list of fields to include
in the export. All other fields will be excluded from the export. Place one field
per line.
--query <JSON>
Provides a JSON document as a query that optionally limits the documents returned
in the export.
--csv Changes the export format to a comma separated values (CSV) format. By default
mongoexport writes data using one JSON document for every MongoDB document.
--jsonArray
Modifies the output of mongoexport to write the entire contents of the export as a
single JSON array. By default mongoexport writes data using one JSON document for
every MongoDB document.
--slaveOk, -k
Allows mongoexport to read data from secondary or slave nodes when using
mongoexport with a replica set. This option is only available if connected to a
mongod or mongos and is not available when used with the "mongoexport --dbpath"
option.
This is the default behavior.
--out <file>, -o <file>
Specify a file to write the export to. If you do not specify a file name, the
mongoexport writes data to standard output (e.g. stdout).
--forceTableScan
New in version 2.2.
Forces mongoexport to scan the data store directly: typically, mongoexport saves
entries as they appear in the index of the _id field. Use --forceTableScan to skip
the index and scan the data directly. Typically there are two cases where this
behavior is preferable to the default:
1. If you have key sizes over 800 bytes that would not be present in the _id index.
2. Your database uses a custom _id field.
When you run with --forceTableScan, mongoexport does not use $snapshot. As a
result, the export produced by mongoexport can reflect the state of the database at
many different points in time.
Warning
Use --forceTableScan with extreme caution and consideration.
USAGE
In the following example, mongoexport exports the collection contacts from the users
database from the mongod instance running on the localhost port number 27017. This command
writes the export data in CSV format into a file located at /opt/backups/contacts.csv.
mongoexport --db users --collection contacts --csv --out /opt/backups/contacts.csv
The next example creates an export of the collection contacts from the MongoDB instance
running on the localhost port number 27017, with journaling explicitly enabled. This
writes the export to the contacts.json file in JSON format.
mongoexport --db sales --collection contacts --out contacts.json --journal
The following example exports the collection contacts from the sales database located in
the MongoDB data files located at /srv/mongodb/. This operation writes the export to
standard output in JSON format.
mongoexport --db sales --collection contacts --dbpath /srv/mongodb/
Warning
The above example will only succeed if there is no mongod connected to the data
files located in the /srv/mongodb/ directory.
The final example exports the collection contacts from the database marketing . This data
resides on the MongoDB instance located on the host mongodb1.example.net running on port
37017, which requires the username user and the password pass.
mongoexport --host mongodb1.example.net --port 37017 --username user --password pass --collection contacts --db marketing --out mdb1-examplenet.json
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