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Dumping Data from an ArangoDB database {#DumpManual}
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To dump data from an ArangoDB server instance, you will need to invoke _arangodump_.
It can be invoked by executing the following command:
unix> arangodump --output-directory "dump"
This will connect to an ArangoDB server and dump all non-system collections from
the default database (`_system`) into an output directory named `dump`.
Invoking _arangodump_ will fail if the output directory already exists. This is
an intentional security measure to prevent you from accidently overwriting already
dumped data. If you are positive that you want to overwrite data in the output
directory, you can use the parameter `--overwrite true` to confirm this:
unix> arangodump --output-directory "dump" --overwrite true
_arangodump_ will by default connect to the `_system` database using the default
endpoint. If you want to connect to a different database or a different endpoint,
or use authentication, you can use the following command-line options:
- `--server.database <string>`: name of the database to connect to
- `--server.endpoint <string>`: endpoint to connect to
- `--server.username <string>`: username
- `--server.password <string>`: password to use (omit this and you'll be prompted for the
password)
- `--server.disable-authentication <bool>`: whether or not to use authentication
Here's an example of dumping data from a non-standard endpoint, using a dedicated
database name:
unix> arangodump --server.endpoint tcp://192.168.173.13:8531 --server.username backup --server.database mydb --output-directory "dump"
When finished, _arangodump_ will print out a summary line with some aggregate
statistics about what it did, e.g.:
Processed 43 collection(s), wrote 408173500 byte(s) into datafiles, sent 88 batch(es)
By default, _arangodump_ will dump both structural information and documents from all
non-system collections. To adjust this, there are the following command-line
arguments:
- `--dump-data <bool>`: set to `true` to include documents in the dump. Set to `false`
to exclude documents. The default value is `true`.
- `--include-system-collections <bool>`: whether or not to include system collections
in the dump. The default value is `false`.
For example, to only dump structural information of all collections (including system
collections), use:
unix> arangodump --dump-data false --include-system-collections true --output-directory "dump"
To restrict the dump to just specific collections, there is is the `--collection` option.
It can be specified multiple times if required:
unix> arangodump --collection myusers --collection myvalues --output-directory "dump"
Structural information for a collection will be saved in files with name pattern
`<collection-name>.structure.json`. Each structure file will contains a JSON object
with these attributes:
- `parameters`: contains the collection properties
- `indexes`: contains the collection indexes
Document data for a collection will be saved in files with name pattern
`<collection-name>.data.json`. Each line in a data file is a document insertion/update or
deletion marker, alongside with some meta data.
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