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db.cloneDatabase()¶
-
db.
cloneDatabase
("hostname")¶ Parameters: - hostname (string) – Specifies the hostname to copy the current instance.
Use this function to copy a database from a remote to the current database. The command assumes that the remote database has the same name as the current database. For example, to clone a database named
importdb
on a host namedhostname
, doNew databases are implicitly created, so the current host does not need to have a database named
importdb
for this command to succeed.This function provides a wrapper around the MongoDB database command “
clone
.” Thecopydb
database command provides related functionality.