# Does Filebeat registry file get deleted during reboot
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-filebeat-registry-file-get-deleted-during-reboot/121222
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [February 23, 2018, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-filebeat-registry-file-get-deleted-during-reboot/121222 "2018-02-23T13:58:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@ELK\_GB](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ELK_GB)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-filebeat-registry-file-get-deleted-during-reboot/121222/1 "2018-02-23T13:58:47Z")
Hi,
I'm just wondering does the Filebeat registry file get reset or re-created when rebooting the machine the beat is running on ? Is there any way the file could get affected by any operation other than manually deleting file that could cause filebeat to resend data again from all defined logs prospectors ?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-filebeat-registry-file-get-deleted-during-reboot/121222/2 "2018-02-23T15:14:55Z")
The registry data is not reset by Filebeat. The file is periodically re-written while it's running. The various `clean_` [configuration options](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-filebeat-options.html#clean-options) control when Filebeat will remove an individual file record from being tracked in the registry.
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### Author:  [@ELK\_GB](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ELK_GB)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-filebeat-registry-file-get-deleted-during-reboot/121222/3 "2018-02-23T15:44:24Z")
@andrewkroh thanks for your response! So what would be the default behavior if I have touched non of those options ?
An from your response I assume nothing should be changed when rebooting my Linux machine and Filebeat should continue normally, from where it left off ?
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### Author:  [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-filebeat-registry-file-get-deleted-during-reboot/121222/4 "2018-02-23T15:48:21Z")
Well [`clean_removed`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-filebeat-options.html#clean-removed) is on by default. Where are the files mounted from? If the inode numbers change on reboot then Filebeat will treat everything as new files.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-filebeat-registry-file-get-deleted-during-reboot/121222/5 "2018-03-23T15:48:24Z")
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