Helpful when you want to grab a copy of a production database to play around with locally.
mongodump --host some-mongo-host.com:1234 -d DATABASE_NAME -u DATABASE_USER -p DATABASE_PASSWORD
This will create a local dump
directory; within that directory you'll see a directory with your DATABASE_NAME
.dump
directory, run: mongorestore --db meteor --drop -h localhost --port 3001 DATABASE_NAME