Firestore Import - Export gCloud NOT_FOUND: Project 'projectID' does not exist

Question

What I want is to clone a project that I have in Firebase and create another project that is the same but with another Google account. I have full access to both accounts. Is this possible?

Then I am following the following documentation to export and then import data into Firestore: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/manage-data/export-import

So -in the gloud console- I tried the following in the original project (Storage):

gcloud beta firestore export gs://punkutravel.appspot.com

and I get:

outputUriPrefix: gs://punkutravel.appspot.com/2019-10-27T17:09:39_35393

All good.

So then I want to import that data into another project (with another account)

and I execute the following:

gcloud beta firestore import gs://punkutravel.appspot.com/2019-10-27T17:09:39_35393

and I get the following error:

ERROR: (gcloud.beta.firestore.import) NOT_FOUND: Project 'anqasky-5861e' does not exist.

I have even assigned the permission to the source account and vice versa, but it still hasn't worked out.

Answer 1

You'll have to create a Firestore database on the console. You are getting that error because the database itself does not exist, so you can't import data into it.

Answer 2

I had the same problem and finally I've figured out the solution.

SOLUTION: You need to go to your Firebase console console.firebase.google.com

And you have to pick Datastore type before you can import something.

Answer 3

Perhaps there is a typo in the name of the project?

You can see your available projects with: gcloud projects list.

You can change your default project to one from that list with gcloud config set core/project PROJECT_NAME, or pass --project=PROJECT_NAME to your command.