New juju-mongodb package

[roger peppe]

On 2 December 2013 11:40, Ian Booth <ian.booth at canonical.com> wrote:
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>> I don't fully understand the difference from mongoexport vs mongodump
>> (it looks like dump generates a binary snapshot compatible with
>> restore, while export/import generate text representations of the data.)
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>> I'd *really* like us to stick with *one* of them as the recommended
>> method for backing up the content.
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> Both export and dump are used by the Juju backup tool.
> dump is used to do a full bson export of the database and is required for a
> database recovery.
> export is used to write to json the environment settings document so that there
> is a human readable copy of the full environment settings contained in the
> backup tarball.

ISTM that the mongo command could be used to similar effect, as John
suggests, couldn't it? Then we would not need mongexport
at all.