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Expand Up @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ To prevent data inconsistency and corruption, always shut down the
database cleanly, and use the :ref:`durability journaling
<setting-journal>`. The journal writes data to disk every 100
milliseconds by default, and ensures that MongoDB will be able to
recover a constant state even in the case of an unclean shutdown due to
recover to a consistent state even in the case of an unclean shutdown due to
power loss or other system failure.

If you do not have journaling enabled, use the following procedure to
Expand All @@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ recover data that may be in an inconsistent state.
"Control-C" (when running :program:`mongod` in interactive mode,)
or ``kill $(pidof mongod)`` or ``kill -2 $(pidof mongod)``.

.. warning:: Recovering a member of a replica set

Do not use this procedure to recover a member of a :term:`replica set`.
Instead you should either restore from a :doc:`backup </administration/backups>`
or re-sync from an intact member of the set.


Process
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