[SERVER-2846] Imprive copyDatabase not to require admin privileges Created: 28/Mar/11 Updated: 06/Dec/22 Resolved: 18/Dec/18 |
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | Core Server |
| Component/s: | Admin |
| Affects Version/s: | 1.6.5 |
| Fix Version/s: | None |
| Type: | New Feature | Priority: | Major - P3 |
| Reporter: | Daniel Doubrovkine | Assignee: | Backlog - Storage Execution Team |
| Resolution: | Done | Votes: | 0 |
| Labels: | None | ||
| Remaining Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
| Time Spent: | Not Specified | ||
| Original Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
| Environment: |
MongoHQ |
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| Assigned Teams: |
Storage Execution
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| Description |
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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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| Comment by Daniel Doubrovkine [ 28/Mar/11 ] |
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Article on trying copyDatabase in Ruby + #fail + fallback to mongodump/restore. |