Tricks to backup db

import csv

mongoimport -d database01 -c recipes1000 --type csv --file datatset1000.csv --headerline

Backup

mongodump -d cook

Restore

mongorestore -d cook-recipe-database_1000 recipes1000.bson

The --database is reported as deprecated but still works in 2023. Instead namespace pattern should be used, db.collection.

data restore strategy

first policy - small backup

• restore only a small dump at build
  • keep functionnality
  • debloat docker images (2GB full dump)
  • plan on api restore

2 choices

• restore from bson (binary encoded version of JSON)
• but zip to csv (text) is worthy too. (500mb)

more on compression

quora zip text ppmd / 7z as cmix takes hours p7zip / 7z 7z a -m0=PPMd cook.7z full_dataset.csv 310 from 520 MB