# Unassigned shards, crashed cluster recovery

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shards-crashed-cluster-recovery/113833
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 2, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shards-crashed-cluster-recovery/113833 "2018-01-02T20:34:39Z")
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### Author: ![wweeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c68b51/32.png) [@wweeder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wweeder)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2018, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shards-crashed-cluster-recovery/113833/6 "2018-01-03T16:30:25Z")

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Could you give some more details on what this process would look like? I would like to end with all the same indices existing with any current configuration in place, but I don't care if all data is lost. Just want to get this thing rolling again.

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