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  1. MongoDB Database Tools
  2. TOOLS-2198

mongodump: allow -c to be defined multiple times

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    • Document that `--collection` can be specified multiple times.

      Since 3.2, mongodump has supported dumping multiple collections into a single archive file. However, it seems there is no sane way of providing multiple specific collections to dump.

      In our use-case, we want to backup two large collections separately from the rest. We can dump the rest using two `--excludeCollection` arguments, but you can't use two `--collection` arguments - only the latter one will be used.

      The only way I can figure out to dump the two collections is to first query a list of all collection names in the DB, filter out the two we want to export, and then generate a list of `--excludeCollection` arguments to exclude all but the two we want.

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            sampo Sampo Juustila
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