# Restoring cluster with missing shards
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restoring-cluster-with-missing-shards/20756
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 14, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restoring-cluster-with-missing-shards/20756 "2014-11-14T17:15:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@mhughes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mhughes)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restoring-cluster-with-missing-shards/20756/1 "2014-11-14T17:15:32Z")
Two of my three nodes had catastrophic disk loss. Cluster was set up with
1 replica, 5 shards per index. Obviously the remaining node does not have
all shards for each index.
The system still responds to queries though it obviously has holes in the
data.
If I do nothing, my cluster status is going to report red until these
indices get deleted. Is there anyway around that? Or do I need to just
bite the bullet and drop the unhealthy indices?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restoring-cluster-with-missing-shards/20756/2 "2017-07-06T00:49:55Z")