Question

I am trying to copy a MongoDB database from my (local) development machine to my (remote) test server.

When I am logged in to my test server, I do the following:

db.copyDatabase(“myDB”,”myDB”,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx);

Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is my external IP.

I get the error:

SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list (shell):1

Which doesn’t seem to make sense. I’ve tried adding an extra ) (although I was pretty sure that wasn’t actually going to solve it ) but funnily it gives exactly the same error. I’m totally stumped since it seems to make no sense.

Answer 1

The shell is getting confused when it sees the first decimal point (doesn’t know how to parse that as a parameter). You just need to wrap the IP address in quotes.

db.copyDatabase("myDB","myDB", "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx");