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:class: singlecol

.. warning::
When dumping to a case-insensitive file system such as Windows
or MacOS, collections with names that differ only by capitalization
will be overwritten. For case-insensitive file systems, always use
the :dbtools:`--archive </mongodump/#std-option-mongodump.--archive>`
option.

:binary:`~bin.mongodump` is a utility for creating a binary export of
the contents of a database. :binary:`~bin.mongodump` can export data
from either :binary:`~bin.mongod` or :binary:`~bin.mongos` instances;
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