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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