# Old file with new name found

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-file-with-new-name-found/41766>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [February 15, 2016, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-file-with-new-name-found/41766 "2016-02-15T11:08:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![billmurrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ab097/32.png) [@billmurrin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/billmurrin)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-file-with-new-name-found/41766/19 "2016-04-01T22:11:09Z")

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The issue appears to persist in the new version. I have ignore\_older and close\_older set to 1 hour and I am still running into inode re-use which is causing filebeat to think that a rename is occurring. This issue appears to be based on filebeat thinking that I am updating a previously used inode. The same types of log entries I posted before are present in the logs and I still have data gaps in kibana when this is occurring. Here is an example of what is in my log:

`2016-04-01T20:20:04Z INFO Registry file updated. 9399 states written.
2016-04-01T20:20:04Z INFO Old file with new name found: /mydata/logs-20160228.2300.data is no /mydata/logs-20160401.2010.data
2016-04-01T20:20:04Z INFO Detected rename of a previously harvested file: /mydata/logs-20160228.2300.data -> /mydata/logs-20160401.2010.data
2016-04-01T20:20:04Z INFO Harvester started for file: /mydata/logs-20160401.2010.data
2016-04-01T20:20:04Z INFO Registry file updated. 9400 states written.`

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