Studio 3T’s convenient built-in copy and paste features allow you to copy or duplicate a MongoDB collection to another database in just a few clicks.
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If you’re looking to copy entire MongoDB databases across servers, here’s that article.
Copy MongoDB collection
Select the source collection you want to copy and right-click it in the Connection Tree.
In our case, this is collection test.people on localhost.
Choose Copy Collection.
Paste MongoDB collection
Select your target MongoDB database (or collection) that you want to copy your source collection to.
In our example, that is database “test” on server “ADX”.
Right-click your target and choose Paste Collection.
Configure copy & paste
In the Paste Collection dialog, you can choose how the copy operation should treat (existing) document _ids.
Note that this usually only relevant when you decide to copy a collection into another, existing target collection.
If you paste a collection into a target database that already contains a collection with the same name, the source collection will be inserted with the prefix “Copy_of_”.
To finish, click Paste Collection. This will copy your source collection to your target.
And just like that, your MongoDB collection is copied to another database and/or server.
You can always monitor your copy job on the bottom-left corner and cancel any long-running operations.
Take advantage of other handy copy/paste features in Studio 3T:
- Copy and paste MongoDB documents across databases
- Copy and paste MongoDB connection strings to connect to your database quickly
- Copy and paste MongoDB databases across connections
