MongoDB - shutting down with code:62

Question

I followed the MongoDB Docs to run my MongoDB in macOS,

When I start MongoDB using the terminal get this error:

Shutting down with code: 62

Answer 1

Although the accepted answer works, it removes all your data.

What worked for me without need to lose my DB is using mongodump to create a backup of the data. Then removing it by sudo rm -r /path/to/dbdata and finally restoring it with mongorestore.

That made systemctl start mongodb to not fail and the data was in perfect state.