The backup script is intended to be used as a cron job or as a single command from your laptop. It uses SSH tunneling to a remote host and dumps the mongo database on your machine. Therefore, a public SSH key needs to be copied to the remote machine.

All parameters must be supplied as environment variables:

If you set GPG_PASSWORD, the resulting archive will be encrypted (symmetrically, with the given passphrase). This is recommended if you dump the database on your personal laptop because of data security.

After exporting these environment variables to your bash, run:

./remote-dump.sh

Run (but change the file name accordingly):

mongorestore --gzip --archive=human-connection-dump_2018-11-21.archive

If you previously encrypted your dump, run:

gpg --decrypt human-connection-dump_2018-11-21.archive.gpg | mongorestore --gzip --archive