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How to change the compression of one existing collection in MongoDB?

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I have a DB with several (quite big) collections, on Mongo 3.2.5 and WiredTiger with snappy compression on. I would like to change the compression setting on one small collection I have to test it uncompressed. Is there a possibility to do that on a secondary without having to resync the whole DB?

posted Apr 25, 2016 by anonymous

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Hi try this script to compress particular collection:
repair collection using command "mongod --repair"
or by running command "db.repairDatabase()"
using db.runCommand({ compact: <collection name> })
OR follow this blogpost for many collection compression methods available.
BlogLink: https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/new-compression-options-mongodb-30

answer Apr 29, 2016 by Shivam Kumar Pandey
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