# How would I recover from this failed cluster move?

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**Category:** Running FoundationDB
**Created:** [August 23, 2023, 3:37pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/how-would-i-recover-from-this-failed-cluster-move/4125 "2023-08-23T15:37:21Z")
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### Author: ![swr](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/swr/32/1643_2.png) [@swr](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/swr)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 6:41pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/how-would-i-recover-from-this-failed-cluster-move/4125/8 "2023-08-24T18:41:07Z")

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Also, perhaps it belongs on a separate thread, but is there any documentation describing why my use of `exclude [IP]` didn’t work, leading me to use the erroneous `exclude FORCE [IP]`? (As described in the first post in this thread.)

> [@swr](#):
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> 1. Exclude the three “green” machines with FDB CLI command `exclude FORCE` (this feels like my mistake, but regular `exclude` was saying that it couldn’t calculate the size of the database)

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