# Restoring indexes that have missing shards from snapshot **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 2, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restoring-indexes-that-have-missing-shards-from-snapshot/344265 "2023-10-02T23:01:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 5:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restoring-indexes-that-have-missing-shards-from-snapshot/344265/3 "2023-10-03T05:32:10Z")
Thought we covered that here but perhaps a different use case... > [@Is it possible to restore a single backing index for a data stream](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-restore-a-single-backing-index-for-a-data-stream/341761/4): > > Hi @Russell_Fulton You got me thinnking about this and the answer is Yes! So this is what I did ... I had a data stream Istio Logs My Case I deleted this backing index .ds-logs-istio.access\_logs-default-2023.08.27-000453 Then set it as a "custom" index pattern in the restore UI Then Restored it At this point the backing index is restored... but I could not see the data in places... BTW it can take a while to r… --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restoring-indexes-that-have-missing-shards-from-snapshot/344265)._