# What are the best (preferred) methods to recover data from a corrupted shard?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-best-preferred-methods-to-recover-data-from-a-corrupted-shard/207583
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 12, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-best-preferred-methods-to-recover-data-from-a-corrupted-shard/207583 "2019-11-12T20:20:34Z")
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### Author: ![pushshift](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pushshift/32/50408_2.png) [@pushshift](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pushshift)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2019, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-best-preferred-methods-to-recover-data-from-a-corrupted-shard/207583/3 "2019-11-13T10:25:30Z")

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Hey there! Thanks for replying. I used the tool Glen mentioned here: [Option missing "fix" on startup](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/option-missing-fix-on-startup/207580/7)

The reason it was still writing is because I disabled watermark checks and forgot to re-enable them a while back. :-/

But the data was restored!

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