There are tons of articles explaining how to export/dump a Mongo database from Docker, all of which we seemed to struggle with. The following script allows you to dump your…
Export/Dump Docker MongoDB database
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If you'd like to add text from one file to another (concatenate two text files) the run the following command: cat file1 | cat >> file2 This will output the…
Import MongoDB database Docker
Assuming you followed this article when exporting/dumping your Mongo database from Docker, you can create restore.sh with the below snippet. Prior to running the script, ensure that you have unzipped…
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