Stop Moving a Collection

Stop moving the collection

To stop moving a collection, run the abortMoveCollection command. The following example stops the in-progress move of the app.inventory collection from shard01 to shard02.

db.adminCommand( {
   abortMoveCollection: "app.inventory"
} )

After you run the abortMoveCollection command, the command output returns ok: 1 and resembles the following:

{
   ok: 1,
   '$clusterTime': {
      clusterTime: Timestamp( { t: 1726524884, i: 28 } ),
      signature: {
         hash: Binary.createFromBase64('AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=', 0),
         keyId: Long('0')
      }
   },
   operationTime: Timestamp({ t: 1726524884, i: 28 })
}

Confirm the move operation was stopped

To confirm the collection wasn't moved to the new shard, use the $collStats pipeline stage.

The following example shows how to confirm that the app.inventory collection remains on the same shard:

db.inventory.aggregate( [
  { $collStats: {} },
  { $project: { "shard": 1 } }
] )

This pipeline stage has output similar to the following:

[ { shard: 'shard01' } ]