# Expired records reappears in cold restart

**URL:** <https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/expired-records-reappears-in-cold-restart/4452>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [August 1, 2017, 9:02am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/expired-records-reappears-in-cold-restart/4452 "2017-08-01T09:02:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![rbotzer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.aerospike.com/rbotzer/32/2114_2.png) [@rbotzer](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/rbotzer)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/expired-records-reappears-in-cold-restart/4452/2 "2017-08-01T16:40:06Z")

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This has been discussed before in the forum, and there’s a knowledge base article on the topic: [Issues with cold-start resurrecting deleted records](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/issues-with-cold-start-resurrecting-deleted-records/3930).

Also see: [Guidelines for Deleting Data](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/guidelines-for-deleting-data/3681).

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