Does mongodump & mongorestore support Atlas search indexes?

[Alex_Bjorlig (Alex Bjørlig)]

Pretty much the title - can I expect atlas search indexes to be synced?

[MaBeuLux88_xxx (Maxime Beugnet)]

Hi @Alex_Bjorlig,

How to save/restore a database's Atlas Search Indexes

Hi Mongo community! Is there a way to export/import Atlas Search indexes from one database to another? When I want to restore a test database from production I typically drop the test database and mongorestore it from a mongodump of the production database. Then I have to go back and manually rebuild each Atlas Search index because they do not carry over from the restore. Am I doing this wrong? Is there a way to save/restore the Atlas Search indexes? Thank you, Matt

In this post there is a link to this which then points to that which says that since June 14, 2023, Atlas Search indexes are saved with the Cloud Snapshots.

So – at least – Cloud Backups are here to help as a workaround.

Mongodump and mongorestore are not cloud specific, they are the same tool for MongoDB community or MongoDB entreprise. As Atlas Search is a specific cloud feature of MongoDB Atlas, I don’t see mongodump and mongorestore supporting Atlas Search index definition for now at least but I could be wrong.

Cheers,
Maxime.

[Alex_Bjorlig (Alex Bjørlig)]

Thanks for the response Do you happen to know Alex Bevilacqua - our team is very excited about news on this topic