[[recovery]] === Indices Recovery <> is the process used to build a new copy of a shard on a node by copying data from the primary. {es} uses this peer recovery process to rebuild shard copies that were lost if a node has failed, and uses the same process when migrating a shard copy between nodes to rebalance the cluster or to honor any changes to the <>. The following _expert_ setting can be set to manage the resources consumed by peer recoveries: `indices.recovery.max_bytes_per_sec`:: Limits the total inbound and outbound peer recovery traffic on each node. Since this limit applies on each node, but there may be many nodes performing peer recoveries concurrently, the total amount of peer recovery traffic within a cluster may be much higher than this limit. If you set this limit too high then there is a risk that ongoing peer recoveries will consume an excess of bandwidth (or other resources) which could destabilize the cluster. Defaults to `40mb`. `indices.recovery.max_concurrent_file_chunks`:: Controls the number of file chunk requests that can be sent in parallel per recovery. As multiple recoveries are already running in parallel (controlled by cluster.routing.allocation.node_concurrent_recoveries), increasing this expert-level setting might only help in situations where peer recovery of a single shard is not reaching the total inbound and outbound peer recovery traffic as configured by indices.recovery.max_bytes_per_sec, but is CPU-bound instead, typically when using transport-level security or compression. Defaults to `2`. This setting can be dynamically updated on a live cluster with the <> API.