Using cloneCollection in MongoDB: how to authenticate?

Question

I'm trying to clone a remotely hosted collection to my local Mongo database. I tried opening up the mongo console in the local environment and issued: ``` db.runCommand({cloneCollection: "", from: ""}) ``` It fails with ``` "errmsg" : "exception: nextSafe(): { $err: \"not authorized for query on .system.namespaces\", code: 16550 }", "code" : 13106, ``` How do I properly authorize with the remote server to clone the collection?

Accepted Answer

Unfortunately that's currently not possible. There is a Jira ticket open for this feature. As a workaround you could consider using `mongodump --collection` and `mongorestore`.

Using cloneCollection in MongoDB: how to authenticate?

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