Importing a .bson file into Atlas

MongoDB University M001: MongoDB Basics
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#1

I have created a database, Restuarants through Atlas and made an empty collection, restuarants.

I connected to my Atlas account with mongosh and attempted to import a local .bson file with restore using the following command:

mongorestore -d Restaurants -c restaurants /Users/username/restaurants.sampleRestaurants.bson

However, I get the following error:

Uncaught:
TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property ‘message’ of object 'SyntaxError: unknown: Missing semicolon. (1:15)

I can’t tell what’s wrong. Been looking through the docs but can’t really find an answer.

#2

I had to install the mongo toolsets and was able to restore and create the collection with my data file locally, however now it’s not showing in Atlas for some reason…

#3

Share the command you used to

and the command you used for

May be we can spot the difference between the 2 that could explained why it worked locally but not with Atlas.

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