mongodb - tar gzip mongo dump like MySQL

Question

Is there anyway to tar gzip mongo dumps like you can do with MySQL dumps?

For example, for mysqldumps, you can write a command as such:

mysqldump -u <username> --password=<password> --all-databases | gzip > all-databases.`date +%F`.gz

Is there an equivalent way to do the same for mongo dumps?

For mongo dumps I run this command:

mongodump --host localhost --out /backup

Is there a way to just pipe that to gzip? I tried, but that didn't work.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Version 3.2 introduced gzip and archive option:

mongodump --db <yourdb> --gzip --archive=/path/to/archive

Then you can restore with:

mongorestore --gzip --archive=/path/to/archive