# Where are index templates and lifecycle policies stored?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-are-index-templates-and-lifecycle-policies-stored/243910
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 5, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-are-index-templates-and-lifecycle-policies-stored/243910 "2020-08-05T17:54:05Z")
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### Author: ![steven1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steven1/32/61882_2.png) [@steven1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steven1)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-are-index-templates-and-lifecycle-policies-stored/243910/1 "2020-08-05T17:54:05Z")

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Our cluster was shutdown and we had to recover the data nodes.  
It is now missing all of our index templates and index lifecycles.  
Index data and other settings seem ok.

I'm look for where this data is stored and the possibility of recovering it

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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: [September 2, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-are-index-templates-and-lifecycle-policies-stored/243910/2 "2020-09-02T17:54:06Z")

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