# Data lost/ missing after elastic search restart **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 28, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-lost-missing-after-elastic-search-restart/18382 "2014-06-28T15:37:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jayanth\_saimani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dec6dc/32.png) [@jayanth\_saimani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jayanth_saimani)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-lost-missing-after-elastic-search-restart/18382/1 "2014-06-28T15:37:18Z")
our application has been up and running and around 800 documents where created/ updated over the past 1 month. we restarted the instance today and suddenly we cant find these documents ? we haev the backup of the data folder - can we do anything? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/7a4e1dc0-44d4-49a5-99c3-945daad32d08%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/7a4e1dc0-44d4-49a5-99c3-945daad32d08%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![shadyabhi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@shadyabhi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shadyabhi)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-lost-missing-after-elastic-search-restart/18382/2 "2014-06-28T16:53:08Z")
- Do you have any logs to share? - Has the cluster name changed? On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 9:07 PM, jayanth saimani [jayanthsaimani@gmail.com](mailto:jayanthsaimani@gmail.com) wrote: > our application has been up and running and around 800 documents where > created/ updated over the past 1 month. > we restarted the instance today and suddenly we cant find these documents ? > we haev the backup of the data folder - can we do anything? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/7a4e1dc0-44d4-49a5-99c3-945daad32d08%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/7a4e1dc0-44d4-49a5-99c3-945daad32d08%40googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- Cheers, Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CACXxYfwh6KZ%2BP9w5TpEU7pgLnpafyBvDdcKqUx\_a3wDJqypv3Q%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CACXxYfwh6KZ%2BP9w5TpEU7pgLnpafyBvDdcKqUx_a3wDJqypv3Q%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-lost-missing-after-elastic-search-restart/18382/3 "2017-07-06T01:19:11Z")