Follow standard Kendis installation steps and start the server.
​Important: Don't proceed to the sign-up of Kendis account when you see the form (this instruction is also repeated in Step 3)

Once the Kendis is started with the empty data on your new server, you will see the Sign-up form. You need to IGNORE this and don't register a new account. Follow to the next step to the system area.
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Go to the System admin area by typing <yourKendisURL>/system
The default username is sysadmin. In case you don't have those default credentials, ask them from support@kendis.io

Now click on the Database Settings tab on the left navigation
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Fill up the form with all the required details.
- You must use the Host/URL for MongoDB in this format
​mongodb://<user>:<password>@host/<db>
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e.g., if your host IP is an example 123.122.121.1 then the value would be
mongodb://<user>:<password>@123.122.121.1/<db>
In case your MongoDB server has hostname, just replace IP with hostname
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Once the connection is successful to the MongoDB connection, you can proceed to restore your backup to the externally hosted MongoDB.

Get the latest backup file from the host machine where you have Kendis running. Command to take backup is

> sudo sh bin/backup.sh
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Backup files are created at this location (it may change if you have different Linux version)

kendis-server-linux-x86_64/bin/kendis/kendis_backup
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Use the following command to restore the latest backup into MongoDB
> mongorestore --drop --gzip --archive=<backup-file-name>.tar.gz