debian man page for mongodump

MONGODUMP(1)							  Mongo Database						      MONGODUMP(1)

NAME
       mongodump - the Mongo dump tool

SYNOPSIS
       mongodump [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION
       mongodump is a tool to output a binary representation of a database.  It is mostly used for doing hot backups of a database.

OPTIONS
       --help show usage information

       -h, --host HOST
	      server to connect to (default HOST=localhost)

       -d, --db DATABASE
	      database to use

       -c, --c COLLECTION
	      collection to use

       -o, --out FILE
	      output file, if not specified, stdout is used

       --dbpath PATH
	      directly access mongod data files in this path, instead of connecting to a mongod instance

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2007-2009 10gen

SEE ALSO
       For more information, please refer to the MongoDB wiki, available at http://www.mongodb.org.

AUTHOR
       Kristina Chodorow

10gen								     June 2009							      MONGODUMP(1)