abortMoveCollection

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Definition

abortMoveCollection

Stops an in-progress moveCollection operation.

New in version 8.0.

This command must run on the admin database.

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

This command is not available on the Atlas Shared Tier or on Atlas Serverless.

MongoDB Enterprise: The subscription-based, self-managed version of MongoDB
MongoDB Community: The source-available, free-to-use, and self-managed version of MongoDB

db.adminCommand( {
   abortMoveCollection: "<database>.<collection>"
} )

Field	Type	Necessity	Description
`abortMoveCollection`	string	Required	Specifies the database and collection to stop moving.

The following example stops the in-progress move of the sales.us_accounts collection to a new shard.

db.adminCommand( {
   abortMoveCollection: "sales.us_accounts"
} )

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Sharding

abortReshardCollection