# Delete all indexes **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 27, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-all-indexes/109226 "2017-11-27T13:46:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Deus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deus/32/24724_2.png) [@Deus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deus)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-all-indexes/109226/1 "2017-11-27T13:46:33Z")
After deleting ALL indexes, all documents deleted too and can't be restored? I know about Reindex API, nut it just copies documents from one index to another. ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-all-indexes/109226/2 "2017-11-27T13:53:25Z")
If you have deleted all indices, they are gone together with all the data. There is no soft delete in Elasticsearch. Do you have a snapshot you can use as a backup? ---
**Author:** ![Deus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deus/32/24724_2.png) [@Deus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deus)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-all-indexes/109226/3 "2017-11-27T14:00:54Z")
Thank you. Yes, I have backups. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-all-indexes/109226/4 "2017-12-25T14:00:59Z")
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