title: Mongodb replica set status showing "RECOVERING"
body: <p>I have setup the replica set over 3 mongo server and imported the 5 GB data.
  now status of secondary server showing "RECOVERING".
  Could you let me know what is means for "RECOVERING" and how to solve this issue.</p>
  
  <p>Status is as below</p>
  
  <pre><code>rs.status()
  {
      "set" : "kutendarep",
      "date" : ISODate("2013-01-15T05:04:18Z"),
      "myState" : 3,
      "members" : [
          {
              "_id" : 0,
              "name" : "10.1.4.138:27017",
              "health" : 1,
              "state" : 3,
              "stateStr" : "RECOVERING",
              "uptime" : 86295,
              "optime" : Timestamp(1357901076000, 4),
              "optimeDate" : ISODate("2013-01-11T10:44:36Z"),
              "errmsg" : "still syncing, not yet to minValid optime 50f04941:2",
              "self" : true
          },
          {
              "_id" : 1,
              "name" : "10.1.4.21:27017",
              "health" : 1,
              "state" : 1,
              "stateStr" : "PRIMARY",
              "uptime" : 86293,
              "optime" : Timestamp(1358160135000, 18058),
              "optimeDate" : ISODate("2013-01-14T10:42:15Z"),
              "lastHeartbeat" : ISODate("2013-01-15T05:04:18Z"),
              "pingMs" : 0
          },
          {
              "_id" : 2,
              "name" : "10.1.4.88:27017",
              "health" : 1,
              "state" : 3,
              "stateStr" : "RECOVERING",
              "uptime" : 86291,
              "optime" : Timestamp(1357900674000, 10),
              "optimeDate" : ISODate("2013-01-11T10:37:54Z"),
              "lastHeartbeat" : ISODate("2013-01-15T05:04:16Z"),
              "pingMs" : 0,
              "errmsg" : "still syncing, not yet to minValid optime 50f04941:2"
          }
      ],
      "ok" : 1
  </code></pre>