Load File with mongoimport

In Atlas, go to the Database Access page for your project.

1. If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

2. If it's not already displayed, select your project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.

3. In the sidebar, click Database Access under the Security heading.

   The Database Access page displays.

Set up a database user in the target Atlas cluster.

To run mongoimport to write to Atlas cluster, you must specify a database user that has readWrite privileges in the database into which to import data. For example, a user with Atlas admin role provides these privileges.

If no such user exists, create the user:

1. If it isn't already displayed, click the Database Users tab.

2. Click Add New Database User.

3. Add an Atlas admin user.

In Atlas, go to the Clusters page for your project.

1. If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

2. If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.

3. If it's not already displayed, click Clusters in the sidebar.

   The Clusters page displays.

Click Connect.

Click Connect for the Atlas cluster into which you want to migrate data.

Update IP Access List.

If the host where you will run mongoimport is not in the IP Access List, update the list. You can specify either:

• The public IP address of the server on which mongoimport will run, or

• If set up for VPC peering, either the peer's VPC CIDR block (or a subnet) or the peer VPC's Security Group, if you chose AWS as your cloud provider.

Copy the target cluster URI / host information.

You can connect to your Atlas cluster using its connection string URI. In the connect dialog box perform the following steps:

1. Click Drivers.

2. Copy the connection string found in step 1.

3. Replace PASSWORD with the password for the root user, and DATABASE with the name of the database to which you wish to connect.

   Important

   You must escape any instances of the @ character in the provided <PASSWORD>. For example, p@ssword should be p%40ssword.

This connection string is specified to mongoimport in the --uri option.

When using --host, if the Atlas cluster is a replica set you must also retrieve the replica set name. For example:

myAtlasRS/atlas-host1:27017,atlas-host2:27017,atlas-host3:27017

Run mongoimport.