# Elastic search 6.8.1 - missing indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-6-8-1-missing-indices/286364>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 11, 2021, 12:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-6-8-1-missing-indices/286364 "2021-10-11T12:07:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dan7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Dan7](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dan7)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2021, 12:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-6-8-1-missing-indices/286364/1 "2021-10-11T12:07:26Z")

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Good day,

I have an Elasticsearch 6.8.1 single node cluster running inside a kubernetes statefulset to index documents that I need to look after and I noticed that the snapshot path.repo had not been setup previously.

So I added a folder for snapshots with the correct rights on the NFS server where the elastic data currently resides, created a persistent volume bound to the NFS directory I created and changed the statefulset to claim against the persistent volume, and mount it to the container.

I created the repository and started to snapshot the cluster inside the pod - happy days. I've done this for a few of the instances running inside the pods now without a problem.

However, I just ran into into the first situation when I brought the statefulset container back up after adding the path.repo to the config and wanted to start the snapshots, where I have 25 indices normally, I now only have 2 i.e. some indices missing.

Looking on Kibana I can see they are not there, however looking on the NFS data share itself which is bound to a different persistent volume for the data, all the data is still on disk and in the PV.

What can I do to get the indices back?

Prior to setting up the snapshots I stopped all nfs services, pods, and drained the kubernetes node to try and facilitate a state where nothing can touch the location of the cluster data seeing that it is always in a dynamic state.

I then created an atomic disk image using Acronis.

So the question is can I get those back, how to go about it etc. Any help greatly appreciated

Kind Regards

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-6-8-1-missing-indices/286364/2 "2021-10-12T00:22:58Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

> [@Dan7](#):
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> Elasticsearch 6.8.1

We'd definitely encourage you to upgrade. 6.8 reaches [EOL](https://www.elastic.co/support/eol) very soon, and there's tonnes of good features and improvements in the 7.X series, with 7.15 being the latest version.

> [@Dan7](#):
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> However, I just ran into into the first situation

What do your Elasticsearch logs show, from startup?

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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:** [November 9, 2021, 12:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-6-8-1-missing-indices/286364/3 "2021-11-09T00:23:39Z")

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