# Getting Data To Persist

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-data-to-persist/3079>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 8, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-data-to-persist/3079 "2010-07-08T02:15:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Kenneth\_Loafman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kenneth_loafman/32/2224_2.png) [@Kenneth\_Loafman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kenneth_Loafman)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-data-to-persist/3079/1 "2010-07-08T02:15:35Z")

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Hi,

I installed elasticsearch-0.8.0 on 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 system. It comes  
up, runs fine, creates the indices I want, etc., but has a very serious  
problem I can't trace down. If I do a 'bin/service/elasticsearch  
restart' command (change config/restart), the entire database  
disappears. I'm fairly certain this is not the desired action. Here's  
a console log showing what happens:

ken@stealth:/opt/elasticsearch-0.8.0$ ll work/elasticsearch/indices/  
total 4  
drwxr-xr-x 22 ken ken 4096 2010-07-07 17:48  
74f73a5f-50a0-4ad4-a574-6466300b9399

\<go off and run ES for a while, then restart\>

ken@stealth:/opt/elasticsearch-0.8.0$ bin/service/elasticsearch restart  
Stopping ElasticSearch...  
Stopped ElasticSearch.  
Starting ElasticSearch...Waiting for ElasticSearch......  
ElasticSearch started.

ken@stealth:/opt/elasticsearch-0.8.0$ ll  
work/elasticsearch/indices/74f73a5f-50a0-4ad4-a574-6466300b9399/  
ls: cannot access  
work/elasticsearch/indices/74f73a5f-50a0-4ad4-a574-6466300b9399/: No  
such file or directory  
ken@stealth:/opt/elasticsearch-0.8.0$ ll work/elasticsearch/indices/  
total 0

I've read through the docs many times (very terse), changed config,  
blown it away and unzipped again, nothing helps. Perhaps you can tell  
me what I can do to correct the problem. I'm pretty sure it should  
persist the data.

...Thanks,  
...Ken

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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 6, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-data-to-persist/3079/2 "2017-07-06T04:22:32Z")

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