mongodb restore multiple collections with single command
Try these parameter to Include or exclude collections


--nsInclude 
--nsExclude


During restoration, you can ignore the unwanted collections.

EG:

Dump all the collections

mongodump --db bhuvi --out /tmp

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 20 18:09 ./
drwxrwxrwt 9 root root 4096 Dec 20 18:25 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  125 Dec 20 18:09 coll1.bson
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  125 Dec 20 18:09 coll1.metadata.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   83 Dec 20 18:09 coll2.bson
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  125 Dec 20 18:09 coll2.metadata.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  125 Dec 20 18:09 coll3.bson
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  125 Dec 20 18:09 coll3.metadata.json


My dump folder has 3 collections.


coll1
coll2
coll3


Restoring coll2 and coll3 collections

I want to restore coll2 and coll3 in the test db.

mongorestore --db test --nsExclude 'test.*1' /tmp/bhuvi/

2017-12-20T18:25:50.299+0000    the --db and --collection args should only be used when restoring from a BSON file. Other uses are deprecated and will not exist in the future; use --nsInclude instead
2017-12-20T18:25:50.299+0000    building a list of collections to restore from /tmp/bhuvi dir
2017-12-20T18:25:50.299+0000    reading metadata for test.coll3 from /tmp/bhuvi/coll3.metadata.json
2017-12-20T18:25:50.312+0000    restoring test.coll3 from /tmp/bhuvi/coll3.bson
2017-12-20T18:25:50.313+0000    reading metadata for test.coll2 from /tmp/bhuvi/coll2.metadata.json
2017-12-20T18:25:50.326+0000    restoring test.coll2 from /tmp/bhuvi/coll2.bson
2017-12-20T18:25:50.327+0000    no indexes to restore
2017-12-20T18:25:50.327+0000    finished restoring test.coll3 (3 documents)
2017-12-20T18:25:50.327+0000    no indexes to restore
2017-12-20T18:25:50.328+0000    finished restoring test.coll2 (2 documents)
2017-12-20T18:25:50.328+0000    done


Check the collections

&gt; use test
switched to db test
&gt; show collections
coll2
coll3


For restore collections with similar names

mongorestore --db test --nsInclude 'test.coll*' /tmp/bhuvi/

Restore collections with different pattern

There is no straight forward method for this, but we can create a loop to restore this.

create a file with list of collections that we need to restore

vi collections
#add the collections names and save.
coll1
coll2


shell script for restore in loop

#!/bin/bash
input="collcetions"
backup_path="/tmp/mydb"
while IFS= read -r col_name
do
  mongorestore --db sqladmin --collection $col_name $backup_path/$col_name.bson
done &lt; "$input"


root@lin_sql1:/home/ubuntu# ./restore

2017-12-21T04:56:36.596+0000    checking for collection data in /tmp/mydb/coll1.bson
2017-12-21T04:56:36.596+0000    reading metadata for sqladmin.coll1 from /tmp/mydb/coll1.metadata.json
2017-12-21T04:56:36.616+0000    restoring sqladmin.coll1 from /tmp/mydb/coll1.bson
2017-12-21T04:56:36.677+0000    no indexes to restore
2017-12-21T04:56:36.677+0000    finished restoring sqladmin.coll1 (3 documents)
2017-12-21T04:56:36.677+0000    done
2017-12-21T04:56:36.686+0000    checking for collection data in /tmp/mydb/coll2.bson
2017-12-21T04:56:36.686+0000    reading metadata for sqladmin.coll2 from /tmp/mydb/coll2.metadata.json
2017-12-21T04:56:36.699+0000    restoring sqladmin.coll2 from /tmp/mydb/coll2.bson
2017-12-21T04:56:36.760+0000    no indexes to restore
2017-12-21T04:56:36.760+0000    finished restoring sqladmin.coll2 (2 documents)
2017-12-21T04:56:36.760+0000    done


Check the collections

&gt; use sqladmin
switched to db sqladmin
&gt; show collections
coll1
coll2