# Indexing Anatomy

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-anatomy/180364>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 9, 2019, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-anatomy/180364 "2019-05-09T12:49:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![DeepakBhatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@DeepakBhatt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DeepakBhatt)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-anatomy/180364/1 "2019-05-09T12:49:25Z")

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Hi Team,

Just want to ask, if we are indexing a document and replica shards are not able to index the documents only primary shards indexed. Are we able to search that document?

If yes, then our shards are not synced, can you please let me know the process how shards are synced?

Thanks in advanced!

Deepak

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-anatomy/180364/2 "2019-05-09T15:55:50Z")

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> [@DeepakBhatt](#):
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> Are we able to search that document?

Yes.

> [@DeepakBhatt](#):
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> can you please let me know the process how shards are synced?

When replicas will be allocated on a node, the sync process will happen automatically behind the scene.

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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:** [June 6, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-anatomy/180364/3 "2019-06-06T15:55:58Z")

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