Using mongodb tools (mongodump, mongorestore) from another machine

I know this is quite an old question, but googling took me there. On ubuntu 14.04 I have a following line in /etc/sources.list.d/mongo.list to have the 3.2 version there:

deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu trusty/mongodb-org/3.2 multiverse

The source contains few packages. According to the MongoDB Manual it's like this:

• mongodb-org - A metapackage that will automatically install the four component packages listed below.
• mongodb-org-server - Contains the mongod daemon and associated configuration and init scripts.
• mongodb-org-mongos - Contains the mongos daemon.
• mongodb-org-shell - Contains the mongo shell.
• mongodb-org-tools - Contains the following MongoDB tools: mongoimport bsondump, mongodump, mongoexport, mongofiles, mongooplog, mongoperf, mongorestore, mongostat, and mongotop.

So in your case the mongodb-org-tools should be enough.

Usually Linux distributions create several packages from a single software, like server, clients, dev and doc.

For example, on Debian, you can install the mongodb-clients package that contains mongodump and mongorestore and does not install the mongodb server.

10gen doesn't provide seperate packages such as server - clients - dev & doc for mongodb (at least I couldn't found for Ubuntu 10.04). So I just copied /usr/bin/mongodump and /usr/bin/mongorestore binaries to my HTTP server manually (machines were same architecture) Now i'm running these commands on my server which doesn't have any mongodb installation without problems.