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Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB commands

Overview

Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB is a replication tool for MongoDB clusters. It provides commands to manage and monitor the replication process between source and target MongoDB clusters.

Commands

version

Display the current version of Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB.

$ pcsm version

status

Get the status of the replication process.

$ pcsm status

start

Starts cluster replication.

$ pcsm start

To start a filtered replication, pass the namespaces (databases and collections) that you want to include/exclude from replication.

$ pcsm start \
--include-namespaces="db1.collection1,db2.collection2" \
--exclude-namespaces="db3.collection3"

To include or exclude a specific database and all collections it includes, pass it in the format mydb.*.

Available flags:

Name Description
--include-namespaces Replicate only the specified namespaces. Multiple namespaces are supported as a comma separated list. The number of namespaces to specify is unlimited
--exclude-namespaces Replicate everything except the specified namespaces. Multiple namespaces are supported as a comma separated list. The number of namespaces to specify is unlimited

reset

Resets the PCSM state and deletes the metadata collections from target deployment. After the command execution, you must restart the PCSM service and start the data replication from scratch. Read more about the flow in Troubleshooting guide

$ pcsm reset --target

finalize

Finalize cluster replication.

$ pcsm finalize

pause

Pause cluster replication.

$ pcsm pause

resume

Resume cluster replication.

$ pcsm resume

Available flags:

Name Description
--from-failure Resume replication from the last failure point

Last update: January 13, 2026
Created: January 13, 2026