title: Where are data files of elasticsearch on a standard debian install?
body: <p>Now I'm in a very problematic situation...</p>
  
  <p>My data server has been hacked and now I can't request my elasticsearch server by curl or any other method. I have a bunch of very critical data which was not yet backuped (2 days late, hell, I didn't see the alert that backup failed).</p>
  
  <p>I've tried to restart the service but no way, it say nothing and I get nothing in processes when I'm watching with ps. I think that comes from my hoster which runs my server in a secure mode...</p>
  
  <p>So I tried to locate the physical files but I didn't find them. I've a non-customized install so in my config file, I have this :</p>
  
  <pre><code># Path to directory where to store index data allocated for this node.
  #
  # path.data: /path/to/data
  #
  # Can optionally include more than one location, causing data to be striped across
  # the locations (a la RAID 0) on a file level, favouring locations with most free
  # space on creation. For example:
  #
  # path.data: /path/to/data1,/path/to/data2
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Great explined but finally, where are my files ?</p>
  
  <p>Is someone there who can help me ?
  Thanks in advance to all great people in this place</p>