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Create an online archive for a collection in the specified cluster.
You can create an online archive for an M10 or larger cluster.
To learn more about online archives, see https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/online-archive/manage-online-archive/.
To use this command, you must authenticate with a user account or an API key that has the Project Data Access Admin role.
Syntax
atlas clusters onlineArchives create [options]
Options
Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
--archiveAfter | float | true | Number of days after which to archive cluster data. |
--clusterName | string | true | Name of the cluster. |
--collection | string | true | Name of the collection. |
--dateField | string | true | Name of an already indexed date field from the documents. |
--dateFormat | string | false | Date format for the date field. Valid values are ISODATE, EPOCH_SECONDS, EPOCH_MILLIS, or EPOCH_NANOSECONDS. This value defaults to "ISODATE". |
--db | string | true | Name of the database. |
-h, --help | false | help for create | |
-o, --output | string | false | Output format. Valid values are json, json-path, go-template, or go-template-file. |
--partition | strings | false | Fields to use to partition data. You can specify up to two frequently queried fields, separated by a comma, in the following format: <fieldname>:<datatype>. The data type must match the data type of the field in the document. |
--projectId | string | false | Hexadecimal string that identifies the project to use. This option overrides the settings in the configuration file or environment variable. |
Inherited Options
Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
-P, --profile | string | false | Human-readable label that identifies the profile to use from your configuration file. To learn about profiles for the Atlas CLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-save-connection-settings. To learn about profiles for MongoCLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-configuration-file. |
Examples
# Create an online archive for the sample_mflix.movies collection in a cluster named myTestCluster when the current date is greater than the value of released date plus 2 days: atlas clusters onlineArchive create --clusterName myTestCluster --db sample_mflix --collection movies --dateField released --archiveAfter 2 --output json
# Create an online archive for the sample_mflix.movies collection in a cluster named myTestCluster using a profile named egAtlasProfile when the current date is greater than the value of the released date plus 2 days. Data is partitioned based on the title field, year field, and released field from the documents in the collection: atlas clusters onlineArchive create --clusterName myTestCluster --db sample_mflix --collection movies --dateField released --archiveAfter 2 --partition title:string,year:int --output json -P egAtlasProfile