I've enabled automatic backups on Mongo Atlas. Now I need to view and query a specific snapshot to check some documents? How can I do it quickly and safely?
2 Answers
Go to Mongo Atlas console, click on your cluster, then go to Backup tab and download your snapshot:
You'll get a .tgz archive. It opens in a popup, so mind your blocker.
Unpack the archive, then run
docker run -it -p 27017:27017 -v /tmp/extracted/snapshot/dir:/data/db mongo
Now you can connect to the snapshot data using a mongo client like MongoDB Compas using default connection (localhost:27017).
The accepted answer did not work for me. Alternative approach:
Download the backup from your Atlas console and extract it.
Then run the following in your Terminal:
mongod --dbpath ~/Downloads/Cluster0-2020-11-20T15-53-03.006Z
Replacing Cluster0... with your extracted folder.
Now you can connect to the snapshot data using a mongo client like MongoDB Compass using default connection (localhost:27017).
You can also define a custom port with --port
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