.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" (C) Copyright 2016 Apollon Oikonomopoulos , .\" .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .TH MONGORESTORE 1 "Jul 18, 2016" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: .\" .nh disable hyphenation .\" .hy enable hyphenation .\" .ad l left justify .\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins .\" .nf disable filling .\" .fi enable filling .\" .br insert line break .\" .sp insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME mongorestore \- restore backups generated with mongodump(1) .SH SYNOPSIS .B mongorestore .RI [ options "] [" "directory or file to restore" ] .SH DESCRIPTION The \fBmongorestore\fP program allows restoring backups obtained using \fBmongodump\fP(1) into a running MongoDB instance. By default it will restore all data in the specified file or directory, but limitting by database and collection is possible. .SH OPTIONS See \fBmongorestore --help\fP for a list supported options and their descriptions. .SH SEE ALSO .BR mongodump (1) The full documentation of \fBmongorestore\fP can be found at https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/program/mongorestore/. .SH AUTHOR \fBmongorestore\fP was written by MongoDB, Inc. and is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. This manpage was written by Apollon Oikonomopoulos for the Debian project (but may be used by others).