Hi @Robert Campbell bson files (binary files) are generally exported using mongodump and need to be imported using mongorestore
Please check this document for more details
Let me know if you need any additional information.
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Geetha
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You are correct.
TGZ is a type of Gzip file.
I have looked at the docs you shared. When I unzip it its a Tar file of all the bson files of each database.