The data is there, it's just closed, and there are no actions taken on closed indexes. You need to reopen them - http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/indices-open-close.html#indices-open-close
On 17 January 2015 at 02:35, Russell Butturini <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > New to Elasticsearch but already a huge fan. I had a strange incident > happen I was hoping you could provide some insight on. > > I set up a single Elastic search node for a project and collected some > data in it for a few days to make sure everything was working correctly. No > issues. I went through and closed those indexes from my testing, and added > a second node to the cluster. When I did that...POOF....All the closed > indexes disappeared. No big deal to me, but I can see the disk space is > still being used by those indexes. They didn't replicate to the second > node (the two VMs are identical) because the disk space usage over there is > much lower. I don't care about the data, is there any way I can either > recover the indexes and properly purge them, or just remove them from disk > by some other method? I don't really care about the data, but would to get > the space back. > > Thanks in advance for any help! > > -Russell > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/89a3ebcd-4dde-4d16-8458-2bb372b2870f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/89a3ebcd-4dde-4d16-8458-2bb372b2870f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X8-H89cVUyS2D%3DBRp4b9ADkSUiscypnhAdJPViNV_D67Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
