MongoDB mongorestore and existing collection with records

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Simone Carletti picture Simone Carletti · Oct 26, 2010 · Viewed 31.4k times · Source

I need to import (restore) a collection generated with mongodump into an existing database and I'd like the records to be merged into the existing collection.

Does mongorestore merge the records in the same collection or it will drop the existing collection before restoring the records?

Answer

Niels van der Rest picture Niels van der Rest · Oct 26, 2010

mongorestore will only drop the existing collection if you use the --drop argument.

If you don't use --drop, all documents will be inserted into the existing collection, unless a document with the same _id already exists. Documents with the same _id will be skipped, they are not merged. So mongorestore will never delete or modify any of the existing data by default.

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