What are the right commands to backup and restore ESA alert data in RSA NetWitness

Issue

In regards to ESA backup & restore, what are the right commands for both using mongorestore?
There is a online manual for this as follows but it doesn't tell us the right command.
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https://sadocs.emc.com/0_en-us/090_10.4_User_Guide/215_SysAdmin/BackupRest/ESABupRecov
In Security Analytics 10.4, ESA alert data is stored in the co-located Mongo instance (database name: esa). For details on backup and restore, refer to mongodump and mongorestore.
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Resolution

Please follow the steps below to backup and restore ESA DB.

To backup the database:

1. Stop the ESA service.
service rsa-esa stop

2. Backup the database
Option1: Backup alert db only
mongodump -vvvv -d esa -c alert -u esa -p esa -o /root/alert-db 
Option:2: Backup the entire database
mongodump -vvvv -d esa -u admin -p --authenticationDatabase admin -o /root/alert-db

3. Start the ESA service.
service rsa-esa start


To restore the database:

1. Stop the ESA service.
service rsa-esa stop

2. Restore the database
mongorestore -vvvv -d esa -u esa -p esa --noLoader /root/alert-db/esa 

3. Start the ESA service.
service rsa-esa start

Product Details

RSA Product Set: Security Analytics
RSA Product/Service Type: ESA
RSA Version/Condition: 10.4.x, 10.5.x, 10.6.x
Platform: CentOS
Platform (Other): MongoDB
O/S Version: EL6

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