Restore only shards servers [Replica sets]

Hi
I would like to restore my cluster [shards only but not config servers] to a fresh new cluster
is this possible to do?

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Hello @reab ,

it is possible to implement, but it does not make much sense. What is the use case?
If you restore the data on the replica sets, but keep config servers intact, you will have metadata mismatch. For example, mongos will get the info from config server about data on shard A, but in reality it is not there.

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