# How to recover deleted documents in Elasticsearch?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-recover-deleted-documents-in-elasticsearch/103913>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 13, 2017, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-recover-deleted-documents-in-elasticsearch/103913 "2017-10-13T14:18:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![amruth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@amruth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amruth)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-recover-deleted-documents-in-elasticsearch/103913/1 "2017-10-13T14:18:20Z")

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Hi,

Is there anyway to recover deleted documents in ES index?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-recover-deleted-documents-in-elasticsearch/103913/2 "2017-10-13T14:37:56Z")

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> [@amruth](#):
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> Is there anyway to recover deleted documents

Only through use of backups using [snapshot/restore](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.5/modules-snapshots.html)

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**Author:** ![amruth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@amruth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amruth)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-recover-deleted-documents-in-elasticsearch/103913/3 "2017-10-13T14:49:01Z")

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Hi Mark,

But the documents are already deleted.

Thanks

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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 10, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-recover-deleted-documents-in-elasticsearch/103913/4 "2017-11-10T14:49:15Z")

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