Joining multiple standalone Pritunl's into a single MongoDB

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Hello!

We have multiple Pritunl instances, each one running their own local MongoDB host.
We would like to unify these instances into a single, external MongoDB to form a cluster.

What would be the best migration path to accomplish this? I know I could copy the contents from one of the MongoDB’s, but then I’m not sure how I would handle the other ones. I want to preserve existing user profiles as much as possible to avoid additional work. Are there any trouble related to standalone servers becoming nodes in a cluster?

I was thinking also of only exporting certain MongoDB collections and joining them, but I’m not sure if this would work.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

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There is no way to merge different Pritunl databases, it would cause significant issues. MongoDB has information on converting a single host into a replica sets but one existing database would need to be selected and the other databases would need to be deleted.

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That’s fine, I imagined something like that…

Thanks zach! You’re great!