The MongoDB documentation on backup at http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/backup-with-mongodump/
(http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/backups/) tells that we can
use mongodump and mongorestore for small deployment. They create
and use BSON files to do dump and restore. We followed and succeeded.
On the machine where Tool Catalog is running, do:
mongodump --db tool_catalog
This creates a directory named "dump/" in the current directory, and dumps the
"tool_catalog" database into it.
To restore, copy the "dump/" directory to the target machine. On it, make sure that
mongod is running. Go to "dump/"'s parent directory, do:
mongorestore dump
And it will restore it with the current running mongod.
mongo > show dbs
now shows the "tool_catalog" directory.