Export Island's data about monkey HOT 7 OPEN

Hi @itaymmguardicore , I am thinking of working on this feature, can u please guide me on what you are expecting?

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Hey @subkanthi
First of all thank you for contributing to this project and sorry it took a while to get back to you.

Some general guidelines to what we're expecting for the feature:

• Add a button on one of the island's pages which will download the exported DB.
• Add a button on one of the island's pages which will upload an exported DB and import it (all previous data should be removed. Warn the user before performing this operation) - recommended but optional.
• All data in DB must be exported.
• The exported DB should be easy and conveniently readable by a free widely-used tool.
• The exported DB is in a human readable format - recommended but optional.
• The exported DB is lightweight - recommended but optional.
• Encrypted fields should stay encrypted (credentials).

With all that being said, I think the best way to go is to use the mongodump tool, or a python equivalent.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

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Hey I would like to work on this issue can you guide me on how to proceed. I read the requirements can you guide me a bit more.

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I think we want an option to export the Island DB in a way we can later import it into another instance of the Island.
So we should probably run on the Island some command to dump the database in a standard format, omitting the "boring" DBs like admin and local, and an equivalent import command that will read this file and insert it into the DB

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The best would be to be able to import the exported mongodump. However I couldn't figure out how to solve credential encryption problem. Since each mongo instance seems to have a distinct key, other mongo instances can't decrypt credentials and monkey throws errors.

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Relatively complex for the value it would bring. We'd have to solve the issues of credential encryption, but this feature could be useful internally for debugging.

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