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How to Copy a MongoDB Collection to Another Database

Posted on: 29/04/2020 (last updated: 04/08/2021) by Thomas Zahn

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.

Ready? Download the latest Studio 3T version and let’s roll.

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.

copy collection with highlights

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.

Paste collection with highlights

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.

New set of file created

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

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About The Author

Thomas Zahn

Having grown up with a living room that was essentially the office of his mother’s software start-up in the 80s, Thomas is a dyed-in-the-wool software engineer. In the past, he has worked for large outfits such as Microsoft Research and Nokia as well as for specialised engineering shops and start-ups. He lives in Berlin with his wife and two kids, and loves tennis and hiking (though, bizarrely, he constantly seems to find no time to do much of either those two). Thomas holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Freie Universität Berlin.

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