# A Question about Indices recovery type

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-question-about-indices-recovery-type/118760>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 7, 2018, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-question-about-indices-recovery-type/118760 "2018-02-07T06:35:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![8a98bb2968a03fe24acf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/e8c25b/32.png) [@8a98bb2968a03fe24acf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/8a98bb2968a03fe24acf)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-question-about-indices-recovery-type/118760/1 "2018-02-07T06:35:44Z")

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Hi there  
I checked indices recovery types of Elasticsearch  
In the document, the type of indices recovery is store, snapshot, replica, relocating.  
Here is a link.  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/indices-recovery.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/indices-recovery.html)  
So I checked to use this query.

```auto
GET /_recovery?human

```

but I saw different types (peer, empty\_store...) in my Elasticsearch.  
What happened?  
I think `peer` is similar to `replica`, `empty_store` is similar to `store`. is it right?  
please, explain me about indices recovery type.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-question-about-indices-recovery-type/118760/2 "2018-03-07T06:36:10Z")

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