# Use existing elastic search persistence disk

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-existing-elastic-search-persistence-disk/257118>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\
**Created:** [November 30, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-existing-elastic-search-persistence-disk/257118 "2020-11-30T19:17:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![rajkumar\_25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rajkumar\_25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajkumar_25)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-existing-elastic-search-persistence-disk/257118/1 "2020-11-30T19:17:12Z")

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I am facing "cluster\_uuid": "_na_", an issue in my GKE deployed elastic search. I haven’t taken any snapshots. But the persistence disk is still available.

Is there is any way to retrieve the data from the existing persistence disk or use the existing persistence disk and data for the new ECK?

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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:** [November 4, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-existing-elastic-search-persistence-disk/257118/2 "2022-11-04T08:18:41Z")

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