dbclone

Utility to move data between NoSQL databases.

Features

• Import/export MongoDB databases
• Automatic selection of all collections
• Include/exclude collections for partial imports and exports

Usage in terminal

You can use dbclone command in your terminal if you install the package globally (npm install dbclone -g).

CLI OPTIONS

Two modes are supported: import and export.

They both need MongoDB host and database name).

You can also specify the data directory for more flexibility.

Usage in Node.js apps

TBD. See example.js for a quick demo.

TODO

• support db dropping, counting documents and diffing two databases
• store data types
• add support for indexed properties
• add backends for other database types
• destructive/clean mode (drop db before import to force clean state)
• force mode (in non-destructive mode) to override existing documents / controlled upsert
• cleaner interfaces in libs
• documentation

Release notes

v0.0.2

• Maintenance: changed license from deprecated LGPL-3.0 to MIT
• Bugfix: preserving correct types (fixes problem with ObjectIDs imported as strings)
• Bugfix: fixed include/exclude parsing
• Feature: added count method (thanks @thiagormagalhaes)

v0.0.1

• basic import and export functionality