# Delete an ES container and lost indexes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-an-es-container-and-lost-indexes/155773>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [November 7, 2018, 6:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-an-es-container-and-lost-indexes/155773 "2018-11-07T18:41:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![rancor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rancor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rancor)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 6:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-an-es-container-and-lost-indexes/155773/1 "2018-11-07T18:41:33Z")

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Hi, I have an ELK with 400GB of logs, had to change some settings and delete old ES container, but when I created the new one, lost my previous logs, the logs are still there though at /elasticsearch/nodes/0

How can I get them back?

(newbie on this stack, I'm going through the docs right now) Thanks!

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**Author:** ![rancor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rancor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rancor)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-an-es-container-and-lost-indexes/155773/2 "2018-11-12T16:57:07Z")

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Found a docker-compose.yaml which included the volume ES was using. I can see all logs now.

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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:** [December 10, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-an-es-container-and-lost-indexes/155773/3 "2018-12-10T16:57:09Z")

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