# Basic question about closed indices
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-question-about-closed-indices/155372
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 5, 2018, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-question-about-closed-indices/155372 "2018-11-05T09:29:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Juanma\_Nieto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juanma_Nieto)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2018, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-question-about-closed-indices/155372/1 "2018-11-05T09:29:59Z")
Hello
I have a simple question about index replication when an index is closed, I have notice that after close an index when I reopen it after some time (ex: some weeks), the index start to relocate the replicas.
So I would like to know if when you close and index, does it lose the replicas?
Thank you in advance!
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2018, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-question-about-closed-indices/155372/2 "2018-11-05T09:35:23Z")
> [@Juanma\_Nieto](#):
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> So I would like to know if when you close and index, does it lose the replicas?
Yes it does.
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### Author:  [@Juanma\_Nieto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juanma_Nieto)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2018, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-question-about-closed-indices/155372/3 "2018-11-05T10:07:35Z")
@warkolm
Thanks for info! I always wrongly thought it stored the replicas. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2018, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-question-about-closed-indices/155372/4 "2018-12-03T10:07:40Z")
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