I've found plenty of good instructions on how to use mongodump and mongorestore, to back up my meteor production server and restore the backup if need be:
meteor mongo --url myApp.meteor.com
mongodump -u client -h production-db-b2.meteor.io:27017 -d myApp_meteor_com -out dump/2014_10_21 -p [password from meteor mongo --url]
mongorestore -u client -h production-db-b2.meteor.io:27017 -d myApp_meteor_com dump/2014_10_21_v2/myApp_meteor_com -p [password from meteor mongo --url]
What I haven't found is an explanation of is how to restore a backup-dump to my local meteor app. I have a mongodump output in my app folder. I'm not sure if I can use mongorestore or if there's something else I'm supposed to be doing.
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