Using mongodump: "mongodump: command not found"

Question

I'm trying to get a dump of my local database and it seems I should be using:

mongodump --host localhost:3002 

However, the terminal then tells me:

-bash: mongodump: command not found 

Am I missing something? Or going about this the wrong way? I'm using it on Mac from the terminal.

I installed mongo (I think) using the following commands:

curl http://downloads.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.4.5.tgz > mongodb.tgz  tar -zxvf mongodb.tgz 

Answer 1

As of MongoDB 4.4 (released July 30, 2020), you may need to install mongodump separately because the MongoDB Database Tools (which comprises mongodump, mongorestore, and more) has become its own project.

I found this out because I upgraded to MongoDB 4.4 today and mongodump stopped working.

$ mongodump zsh: command not found: mongodump 

I'm on macOS and installed MongoDB via Homebrew. To get mongodump and friends back, I installed the MongoDB Database Tools via Homebrew:

brew tap mongodb/brew brew install mongodb-database-tools 

If you're on a different OS, this should help:

MongoDB Database Tools Installation

Answer 2

brew tap mongodb/brew; brew install mongodb-community will also install mongodump.

If you don't have the brew command, you really should consider install Homebrew