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  1. Core Server
  2. SERVER-2846

Imprive copyDatabase not to require admin privileges

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    • Icon: New Feature New Feature
    • Resolution: Done
    • Icon: Major - P3 Major - P3
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    • 1.6.5
    • Admin
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    • MongoHQ
    • Storage Execution

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      I recently had to figure out how to copy one MongoHQ database to another. Because copyDatabase requires admin privileges I wasn't able to use it. The best I got is a mongodump and mongorestore, which wastes massive amounts of bandwidth for large databases hosted remotely. MongoHQ doesn't give users admin privileges to run this command and never will (http://support.mongohq.com/discussions/problems/551-i-tried-to-do-a-copy_database-after-a-drop-which-failed-and-now-my-database-has-no-collections-cant-login). Maybe there's a way to implement a "user-mode" copy of databases that would replicate non-system tables and not touch any admin functions?

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            backlog-server-execution Backlog - Storage Execution Team
            dblock Daniel Doubrovkine
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