# When flowable engine restart, how flow continue to work

**URL:** <https://forum.flowable.org/t/when-flowable-engine-restart-how-flow-continue-to-work/5732>\
**Category:** Flowable Engine\
**Created:** [March 30, 2020, 11:48am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/when-flowable-engine-restart-how-flow-continue-to-work/5732 "2020-03-30T11:48:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![abao2016](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecb155/32.png) [@abao2016](https://forum.flowable.org/u/abao2016)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 11:48am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/when-flowable-engine-restart-how-flow-continue-to-work/5732/1 "2020-03-30T11:48:54Z")

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when one of flowable engine restart or die, how the flows continue to work? how to distribution flows?

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**Author:** ![joram](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.flowable.org/joram/32/26_2.png) [@joram](https://forum.flowable.org/u/joram)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 11:24am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/when-flowable-engine-restart-how-flow-continue-to-work/5732/2 "2020-04-13T11:24:52Z")

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All data is persisted in the relational database. This includes definitions and instances. If the server goes down, it continues execution from the latest wait state (e.g. when using async service tasks).