# Recovering from corrupt indexes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recovering-from-corrupt-indexes/7455>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 24, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recovering-from-corrupt-indexes/7455 "2012-04-24T15:59:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![arimus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arimus/32/2853_2.png) [@arimus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arimus)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recovering-from-corrupt-indexes/7455/1 "2012-04-24T15:59:17Z")

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I opened this issue, which was closed and considered a symptom of an OOM,  
etc. However, I still need to determine if there is any way to fix a  
corrupt index...even if that means some partial data loss, it would be much  
better than scrubbing the entire index.

```
https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/1871

```

I assume there is some way to get indexes happy again, rather than having  
to throw everything away?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recovering-from-corrupt-indexes/7455/2 "2012-04-27T08:51:54Z")

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Answered on the issue.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, arimus [arimus@gmail.com](mailto:arimus@gmail.com) wrote:

> I opened this issue, which was closed and considered a symptom of an OOM,  
> etc. However, I still need to determine if there is any way to fix a  
> corrupt index...even if that means some partial data loss, it would be much  
> better than scrubbing the entire index.
> 
> ```
> https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/1871
> 
> ```
> 
> I assume there is some way to get indexes happy again, rather than having  
> to throw everything away?
> 
> 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 6, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recovering-from-corrupt-indexes/7455/3 "2017-07-06T03:30:58Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:30am UTC