# Restore API in disaster recovery scenario

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-api-in-disaster-recovery-scenario/49204>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 4, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-api-in-disaster-recovery-scenario/49204 "2016-05-04T16:55:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![xam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bb73d2/32.png) [@xam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xam)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-api-in-disaster-recovery-scenario/49204/1 "2016-05-04T16:55:20Z")

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Hi All,

I have question on the behavior of the restore api in a disaster recovery scenario (let's say, for example, that my index is corrupted, and the corruption is propagated to all replicas). Is elasticsearch still able to perform an incremental restore or, there are some scenario (like the one I described) that forces ES to perform a full restore of the index?

Thank you,

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-api-in-disaster-recovery-scenario/49204/2 "2016-05-04T23:52:25Z")

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You can do a partial install, ie some of the indices rather than all. But you cannot restore partial indices.

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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, 10:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-api-in-disaster-recovery-scenario/49204/3 "2017-07-05T22:53:54Z")

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