# Can't turn back index.translog.durability to request
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-turn-back-index-translog-durability-to-request/71725
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 16, 2017, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-turn-back-index-translog-durability-to-request/71725 "2017-01-16T12:05:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@mvleandro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mvleandro)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-turn-back-index-translog-durability-to-request/71725/1 "2017-01-16T12:05:39Z")
Hello everyone!
I am using Elasticsearch in version 5.1.1. Recently i've changed my translog durability to async.
I am trying to turn back my index.translog.durability from async to request but i am receiving acknowledge false.
What can i do to go back with syncronous requests?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-turn-back-index-translog-durability-to-request/71725/2 "2017-01-16T12:24:40Z")
Yes. `request` should be good.
What command did you call exactly?
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### Author:  [@mvleandro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mvleandro)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-turn-back-index-translog-durability-to-request/71725/3 "2017-01-16T12:55:29Z")
PUT \> [http://localhost:9200/\_settings](http://localhost:9200/_settings)
```
{
"index.translog.durability" : "request"
}
```
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### Author:  [@mvleandro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mvleandro)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-turn-back-index-translog-durability-to-request/71725/4 "2017-01-16T13:04:44Z")
I got this response:
```
{
"acknowledged": false
}
```
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-turn-back-index-translog-durability-to-request/71725/5 "2017-01-16T13:09:05Z")
You are missing the index name.
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### Author:  [@mvleandro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mvleandro)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-turn-back-index-translog-durability-to-request/71725/6 "2017-01-16T13:13:43Z")
I tryed to send to \_all but don't worked again.
/\_all/\_settings
How can i send this request to all indices?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-turn-back-index-translog-durability-to-request/71725/7 "2017-01-16T14:09:20Z")
This worked well for me:
```auto
curl -XDELETE "http://localhost:9200/test?pretty"
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/test?pretty"
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/test/_settings?pretty" -d '{
"index.translog.durability" : "async"
}'
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/test/_settings?pretty" -d '{
"index.translog.durability" : "request"
}'
```
I don't think you can do that for all indices. But I think it's easy to script that.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-turn-back-index-translog-durability-to-request/71725/8 "2017-02-13T14:09:20Z")
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