# Possible to restart ES service during Remote Reindex?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-restart-es-service-during-remote-reindex/210011>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 30, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-restart-es-service-during-remote-reindex/210011 "2019-11-30T00:46:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![myspacebarisbroken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@myspacebarisbroken](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/myspacebarisbroken)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-restart-es-service-during-remote-reindex/210011/1 "2019-11-30T00:46:29Z")

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Hello

I'm reindexing some from a remote cluster, but i had to whitelist some more ip's for our backends in elasticsearch.yml. However, it appears i cannot start reindex process until we restart ElasticSearch for our changes to be used. Can i restart my elasticsearch service safely? Will it stop the existing reindex process? it's only about 50% done and it's been a day. I don't want to lose progress.

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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:** [December 28, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-restart-es-service-during-remote-reindex/210011/2 "2019-12-28T00:46:39Z")

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Closed on December 28, 2019, 12:46am UTC

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