# Elk Recovery - Windows

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-recovery-windows/52333>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 9, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-recovery-windows/52333 "2016-06-09T13:28:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![bgavenda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bgavenda/32/10222_2.png) [@bgavenda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bgavenda)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-recovery-windows/52333/1 "2016-06-09T13:28:16Z")

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We lost a stand alone elk server, OS was unrecoverable. We have the indexes and installed a new elk stack on another server. How do we get ES to read the indices. No, we don't have a esdump or snapshot or anything, just the raw indexes we put on the data folder, but what needs to be done to get es to read it?

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-recovery-windows/52333/2 "2017-07-05T22:45:01Z")

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