From Local to Live: Moving Your MongoDB Data to Atlas

This blog gives you a clear understanding of how to migrate your data from MongoDb Compass to MongoDB Atlas (Cloud) . Follow these steps to migrate your data.

• Open your Mongodb atlas and go to Clusters. click on CONNECT button. You will be navigated to new popup showing different ways you can connect. 
• click the compass option . After that you will see an connection string  for connection .copy it. replace the <username> and <password> with your atlas username and password to complete the connection string .

• DEMO: 
               mongodb+srv://<username>:<db_password>@myatlasclusteredu.cbedltk.mongodb.net/

• go to mongodb compass.

• In the landing page you click on the + icon near the connection to create a new connection

          

• inside the connection details page, paste the url to establish the connection to atlas.

   

• after that you have you atlas databases
• create a document inside the atlas connection similar to that of compass documents,the name should be the same
• after creating all the document name similar to that of compass documents. In the compass DB go to each document 

• click on EXPORT DATA 
• click on EXPORT THE FULL COLLECTION

• click the JSON option and export it .It would be downloaded in your system

• Now navigate to you atlas connection under each document Click on ADD DATA
• click on IMPORT JSON OR CSV

• now select the json file we have downloaded from compass.
• click on Import
• Now you you have successfully transferred the documents from compass(local) to atlas(Cloud)