# mongod-failure-after-restore

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/mongod-failure-after-restore/39524>\
**Category:** Percona Server for MongoDB\
**Created:** [October 9, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/mongod-failure-after-restore/39524 "2025-10-09T14:13:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![hemanth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7993a0/32.png) [@hemanth](https://forums.percona.com/u/hemanth)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/mongod-failure-after-restore/39524/1 "2025-10-09T14:13:46Z")

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We are using cloud infrastructure with three servers: one primary and two secondary. We’re running Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) version v2.10. For backups, we use Amazon S3 as the storage. However, when we try to restore, the `mongod` service fails even though the restoration is reported as successful. After this, all three `mongod` services fail. I’m trying to restore the data only on a secondary server using the command:  
`pbm restore --time="2025-09-24T13:30:00Z"`

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**Author:** ![Ivan\_Groenewold](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/ivan_groenewold/32/6299_2.png) [@Ivan\_Groenewold](https://forums.percona.com/u/Ivan_Groenewold)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/mongod-failure-after-restore/39524/2 "2025-10-10T13:34:31Z")

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Hi hemanth, PBM is meant for full restore of all your nodes. If it’s only one node you need to recover, then you can trigger [initial sync](https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/core/replica-set-sync/#logical-initial-sync-process) process.