Is there any documentation/how-to/recipe available for doing a restore with pbm to a different mongo cluster? In particular, to one with a different replica set name? It looks like it would be straightforward to do a restore to another cluster with the same replica set name, but I’d like to be abl…

Hi. The answer is no, there is no recipe to insert to a cluster that uses a different replica set names. In the restored data of the config server nodes the replica set names is tied to the shard id. A metadata rewrite to switch that on the fly whilst re-inserting data would be complicated.

Recipe for restoring to different mongo cluster?

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Nathan_Neulinger November 10, 2020, 8:01am 3

Ah, in my case it’s just a simple replica set, not sharded. I can definitely see the issue if it was a full sharded cluster.

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Recipe for restoring to different mongo cluster?

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