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cloneCollectionAsCapped

The cloneCollectionAsCapped command creates a new capped collection from an existing, non-capped collection within the same database. The operation does not affect the original non-capped collection.

This command is available in deployments hosted in the following environments:

  • MongoDB Atlas: The fully managed service for MongoDB deployments in the cloud

Important

This command is not supported in M0, M2, and M5 clusters or in serverless instances. For more information, see Unsupported Commands.

The command has the following syntax:

db.runCommand(
{
cloneCollectionAsCapped: <existing collection>,
toCollection: <capped collection>,
size: <capped size>,
writeConcern: <document>,
comment: <any>
}
)

The command takes the following fields:

Field
Description
cloneCollectionAsCapped
The name of the existing collection to copy.
toCollection

The name of the new capped collection to create.

The name of the new capped collection must be distinct and cannot be the same as that of the original existing collection.

size
The maximum size,in bytes, for the capped collection.
writeConcern
Optional. A document expressing the write concern of the drop command. Omit to use the default write concern.
comment

Optional. A user-provided comment to attach to this command. Once set, this comment appears alongside records of this command in the following locations:

A comment can be any valid BSON type (string, integer, object, array, etc).

The command copies an existing collection and creates a new capped collection with a maximum size specified by the capped size in bytes.

To replace the original non-capped collection with a capped collection, use the convertToCapped command.

If the capped size is less than the size of the source collection, then not all documents in the source collection will exist in the destination capped collection.

This holds a database exclusive lock for the duration of the operation. Other operations which lock the same database will be blocked until the operation completes. See What locks are taken by some common client operations? for operations that lock the database.

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