Using mongodump: “mongodump: command not found”

Question

I'm trying to get a dump of my local database and it seems I should be using:

mongodump --host localhost:3002

However, the terminal then tells me:

-bash: mongodump: command not found

Am I missing something? Or going about this the wrong way? I'm using it on Mac from the terminal.

I installed mongo (I think) using the following commands:

curl http://downloads.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.4.5.tgz > mongodb.tgz

tar -zxvf mongodb.tgz

Answer 1

brew tap mongodb/brew; brew install mongodb-community brew tap mongodb/brew; brew install mongodb-community will also install mongodump .

If you don't have the brew command, you really should consider install Homebrew

Answer 2

As of MongoDB 4.4 (released July 30, 2020), you may need to install mongodump separately because the MongoDB Database Tools (which comprises mongodump , mongorestore , and more) has become its own project .

I found this out because I upgraded to MongoDB 4.4 today and mongodump stopped working.

$ mongodump
zsh: command not found: mongodump

I'm on macOS and installed MongoDB via Homebrew. To get mongodump and friends back, I installed the MongoDB Database Tools via Homebrew:

brew tap mongodb/brew
brew install mongodb-database-tools

If you're on a different OS, this should help:

MongoDB Database Tools Installation

Answer 3

If you just extracted the .tgz file, the mongodump command is not available in your PATH . Go to your /bin/ subdirectory inside the directory where you have extracted mongodb.tgz, the mongodump binary should be there. Now you can execute:

./mongodump --host localhost:3002

It's much better though to install MongoDB with a package manager. Read this page: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-os-x/ and use, for example, Homebrew to install MongoDB and have all the necessary binaries in PATH.

Answer 4

要使用 mongodump，必须从 os 包管理器安装mongo-tools库。

Answer 5

它可能不在您的路径中，它应该与您的“mongod”位于同一目录中，然后您可以使用以下命令运行它：

/path/to/bin/mongodump --host localhost:3002

Answer 6

It's in the official MongoDB docs now. For example, to install the 3.2 version:

brew tap mongodb/brew
brew install mongodb-community@3.2

Then follow the steps to update your PATH environment variable.

Answer 7

brew tap mongodb/brew
brew install mongodb-database-tools

Answer 8

您必须安装 mongo-tools 才能拥有 mongodump。

sudo apt-get install mongo-tools

Answer 9

安装mongodb客户端对我有用，对于ubuntu，可以通过以下命令完成：

sudo apt install mongodb-clients

Answer 10

For Windows Users

You can download the MongoDB Database Tools from here

And you can read the installation guide here