# Recover missing index with many documents

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recover-missing-index-with-many-documents/29897>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 24, 2015, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recover-missing-index-with-many-documents/29897 "2015-09-24T07:02:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![olegbragin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c4cdca/32.png) [@olegbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/olegbragin)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recover-missing-index-with-many-documents/29897/1 "2015-09-24T07:02:18Z")

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Hello everyone!

Is there a way to easily recover a missing index with all its documents (assuming I have a file system backup)?  
The main problem is that I miss an index for specific date and even after restart elasticsearch doesn't create that index.  
Any help is appreciated 🙂  
Thanks!

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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 5, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recover-missing-index-with-many-documents/29897/2 "2017-07-05T23:48:19Z")

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