[SERVER-4759] mongodump: -d option should complain if the database doesn't exist Created: 24/Jan/12  Updated: 29/Feb/12  Resolved: 24/Jan/12

Status: Closed
Project: Core Server
Component/s: Tools
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Improvement Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Chris Westin Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Done Votes: 0
Labels: backup, dump, export
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
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 Description   

If you issue mongodump -d non_existent_database, you don't get an error.

It's very easy to make a typo in the database name and have this result in not creating a backup, without any error.



 Comments   
Comment by Eliot Horowitz (Inactive) [ 24/Jan/12 ]

we don't check database names or collection names anywhere
this shouldn't be special

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