# Recovery option for closed indices
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recovery-option-for-closed-indices/14340
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 10, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recovery-option-for-closed-indices/14340 "2013-11-10T15:05:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@ananth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ananth)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recovery-option-for-closed-indices/14340/1 "2013-11-10T15:05:13Z")
Seems closed indices are not eligible for recovery process. When
recovery(or re-balancing or relocation of shards) happens in a machine ,
its nice to consider the shards belongs to closed indices which resides in
that machine.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recovery-option-for-closed-indices/14340/2 "2017-07-06T02:07:55Z")