# How to recover index if replicas are set to zero?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-recover-index-if-replicas-are-set-to-zero/19405
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 22, 2014, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-recover-index-if-replicas-are-set-to-zero/19405 "2014-08-22T08:53:14Z")
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### Author:  [@ElasticSearch\_Users\_](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ElasticSearch_Users_)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2014, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-recover-index-if-replicas-are-set-to-zero/19405/1 "2014-08-22T08:53:14Z")
Hi,
If I have an index with 10 shards but no replicas on a 2 node cluster, and
one node goes down. Can I somehow recover the 5 shards to the only running
node? Assuming that I backup the data directory on the node and make it
available to the other node. Is there an API or an automatic way to achieve
this?
Thanks,
Sandeep
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### Author:  [@vineeth\_mohan\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vineeth_mohan_2)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-recover-index-if-replicas-are-set-to-zero/19405/2 "2014-08-22T18:24:15Z")
Hello Sandeep ,
Instead of backing up the data directory , do a snapshot and you can
restore it later to single node machine or 10 node machine.
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Thanks
Vineeth
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 2:23 PM, 'Sandeep Ramesh Khanzode' via
elasticsearch [elasticsearch@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch@googlegroups.com) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I have an index with 10 shards but no replicas on a 2 node cluster, and
> one node goes down. Can I somehow recover the 5 shards to the only running
> node? Assuming that I backup the data directory on the node and make it
> available to the other node. Is there an API or an automatic way to achieve
> this?
>
> Thanks,
> Sandeep
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-recover-index-if-replicas-are-set-to-zero/19405/3 "2017-07-06T01:06:56Z")