# Graceful Exit Guide

**URL:** <https://forum.storj.io/t/graceful-exit-guide/3618>\
**Category:** STORJLINGS\
**Tags:** storagenode\
**Created:** [January 9, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/graceful-exit-guide/3618 "2020-01-09T16:41:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/graceful-exit-guide/3618/5 "2020-01-10T18:20:35Z")

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> [@KernelPanick](#):
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> On my end i feel like a exit-verify could be useful to detect if it’s worth exiting or continuing to run a node that has lost data, but it otherwise in good shape.

You can simply keep your storage node running. If it gets DQed than you know that graceful exit wouldn’t have saved you. If you don’t get DQed you know that you don’t need graceful exit.

Graceful exit will not prevent your node from getting DQed.

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