The documentation on Mongo’s website tells you to use mongodump with a username, password, destination, and which database you want to back up. Except I wanted to back up and restore everything. Users, multiple databases, I don’t really know what else is in there hence I want everything instead of enumerating the things I want.

Turns out you can just omit the database name and it dumps everything

mongodump --uri="mongodb://<host URL/IP>:<Port>" -u $STRMONGODBUSER -p $STRMONGODBPASS

And restore with

mongorestore --uri="mongodb://<host URL/IP>:<Port>"

Since it’s a blank slate with no authentication or users defined yet.