# Elasticsearch crashed during reindex, can I continue?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-crashed-during-reindex-can-i-continue/170962>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 5, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-crashed-during-reindex-can-i-continue/170962 "2019-03-05T17:35:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![brianecole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b782af/32.png) [@brianecole](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brianecole)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-crashed-during-reindex-can-i-continue/170962/2 "2019-03-06T17:00:50Z")

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I think I can finally answer my own question. I found a similar issue reported here and the only solution was to delete the partial/failed index and start reindexing again.

> [@Resume reindex process](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/resume-reindex-process/119563):
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> Hi, We are reindexing a 500gb data, but we dont know how to resume the reindexing once there has been an interruption, can you help us? right now, we are doing this: curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"conflicts": "proceed","source": {"index": "source\_index"},"dest": {"index": "destination\_index","op\_type": "create"}}' '[http://xxx.com/\_reindex?wait\_for\_completion=false&refresh=true](http://xxx.com/_reindex?wait_for_completion=false&refresh=true)' Thanks

So I will start again...

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