Maintaining backups of your workspace data is a very important practice. These data backups can act as a safety measure where data can be recovered or restored in case of an emergency.
Rocket.Chat uses MongoDB as its database. With MongoDB, you have multiple inbuilt backup options depending on the deployment method. In this guide, we are going to focus on how to:
We are going to see how to backup our MongoDB database, using .
The command to backup a simple MongoDB standalone instance is of the format
Running mongodump alone from the command line without any options will assume the database is located on localhost at port 27017 with no authentication.
When the backup is completed, a /dump directory is created.
Backing up a Remote MongoDB instance can be done with the command
See more options and how to use mongodump on .
You should see something like the image below when the command is running
The syntax for the mongorestore command is
You can restore to a remote instance by running
In a successful command execution, you should see a screen like the one below
After backing up your instance, you may need to restore the data at some time. That can be done using
mongorestore allows you to load data from either a binary database dump created by or the standard input into MongoDB instance.
As from MongoDB server 4.4, you are required to install the mongorestore utility separately.
Read more at the MongoDB Database tools docs
The simple command below restores from a dump directory to a local instance running on port 27017
You have the ability to also restore a specific collection or collections from the dump/ directory.
