# Index deleted in Cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-deleted-in-cluster/5906>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 17, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-deleted-in-cluster/5906 "2011-11-17T22:42:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ibivibiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ab992/32.png) [@ibivibiv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ibivibiv)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-deleted-in-cluster/5906/1 "2011-11-17T22:42:31Z")

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Just a quick note so no one does the same oops that I did (and also reply if this one has happened to you):

I had 2 nodes in a cluster with matching data

I removed node 2 from the cluster and manually deleted the data directory

I stopped both nodes

I started node 2 first and then node 1

Node 2 was the master and did not seem to be picking up the existing index that remained on node 1

I thought maybe if I did a create of that same index on Node 2 that it might get it to "see" the configured index on node 1

Instead Node 2 basically obliterated node 1 with a blank new index?

OOOOPS (luckily it was a dev/poc environment)

Is this even possible? Did something else happen?

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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, 3:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-deleted-in-cluster/5906/2 "2017-07-06T03:48:16Z")

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