Using mongodump with a standard Mongo URI

mongodb database-backups
Andrew Mao picture Andrew Mao · Sep 15, 2017 · Viewed 11.4k times · Source

The mongo client can connect with a standard URI:

mongo mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@<server>:<port>/<db>

However, mongodump seems to require an awkward syntax breaking this up into different arguments:

mongodump -u dbuser -p dbpassword -h server -p port -d db ...

Is there a quick and easy way to pass a URI to mongodump as well?

Answer

Neil Lunn picture Neil Lunn · May 17, 2018

The --uri option was added within a minor release of MongoDB 3.4.6. This was referenced in the JIRA issue TOOLS-1587.

It actually did not get official documentation until the MongoDB 3.6 release, but it's now in the manual page

--uri
New in version 3.4.6.

Specify a resolvable URI connection string for the mongod to which to connect.

The following is the standard URI connection scheme:

mongodb://[username:password@]host1[:port1][,host2[:port2],...[,hostN[:portN]]][/[database][?options]]

For detailed explanations of the components of this string, refer to the Connection String URI Format documentation.

The same --uri option is added to other tools such as mongoexport, mongoimport and mongorestore.

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