# How to restore a seach

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-seach/69210>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 15, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-seach/69210 "2016-12-15T18:48:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![markd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/markd/32/13290_2.png) [@markd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/markd)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-seach/69210/1 "2016-12-15T18:48:52Z")

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I deleted "System-stats" search provided with Kibana5 install.  
Any idea how to re-install it?

thanks,  
MarkD:-)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-seach/69210/2 "2016-12-15T20:26:24Z")

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Did you back it up?

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**Author:** ![markd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/markd/32/13290_2.png) [@markd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/markd)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-seach/69210/3 "2016-12-15T20:52:23Z")

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Unfortunately no

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-seach/69210/4 "2016-12-15T20:53:21Z")

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Then you need to recreate it.

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**Author:** ![markd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/markd/32/13290_2.png) [@markd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/markd)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-seach/69210/5 "2016-12-16T00:40:51Z")

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life sucks today....

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**Author:** ![markd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/markd/32/13290_2.png) [@markd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/markd)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-seach/69210/6 "2016-12-16T00:42:28Z")

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Mark,  
wait a second, this was a search that came with Metricbeats..... Can I reinstall metricbeats to get is back, this should work? I will not lose the data?  
Thanks,MarkD:-)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-seach/69210/7 "2016-12-16T00:43:17Z")

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Oh, yeah you can probably run the import script again.

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**Author:** ![markd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/markd/32/13290_2.png) [@markd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/markd)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-seach/69210/8 "2016-12-16T01:15:10Z")

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tomorrrow, i am trying - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-sample-dashboards.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-sample-dashboards.html)

i think this will do it. But the question remains the same - how to make external backup of search/dashboard and how to restore from it?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-seach/69210/9 "2016-12-16T01:24:45Z")

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[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/5.1/managing-saved-objects.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/5.1/managing-saved-objects.html) or use snapshot and restore in ES.

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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:** [January 13, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-seach/69210/10 "2017-01-13T01:24:56Z")

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