'autoIndexID' is not a valid collection option - mongoDB

Question

When I try to run this on my MongoDB:

db.createCollection(\"mycol\", { capped : true, autoIndexID : true, size : 6142800, max : 10000 } )

I

Answer 1

You can also use the option --convertLegacyIndexes (you'll need to use a fairly new version of mongorestore though).

That has been working for me for dumps made from mongodb v2.6