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Mongodump without mongodb

Since it is possible to mongodump/mongorestore remotely, it makes sense to have them installed in a machine that is not the DB itself, right?

Is there a way to install a standalone mongodump executable?

Eg. in order to dockerize my DB backup tool

Solution

  • Ubuntu has the tools separate: mongodb-org-tools
    Alpine also has an edge/community package: mongodb-tools

    I am using the node:alpine Docker to run mongodump/restore and upload to S3, it works well.

    You could also try installing and then copying the binaries, but I imagine they have a lot of dependencies so you might as well find a way to use the tools package, or you'll be creating your own.