db.cloneDatabase()¶

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db.cloneDatabase("hostname")¶

Copies a remote database to the current database. The command assumes that the remote database has the same name as the current database.

Parameter	Type	Description
`hostname`	string	The hostname of the database to copy.

This method provides a wrapper around the MongoDB database command “clone.” The copydb database command provides related functionality.

To clone a database named importdb on a host named hostname, issue the following:

use importdb
db.cloneDatabase("hostname")

New databases are implicitly created, so the current host does not need to have a database named importdb for this command to succeed.

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