apache geode disk-store are not repopulating on cluster restart

Question

I run a geode cluster with various regions backed up to a disk-store specified in a cache.xml like this:

<region name="deal" refid="REPLICATE_PERSISTENT"><region-attributes disk-store-name="deal" disk-synchronous="false"></region-attributes></region>

I think the disk-store are recording the data in the region, but when I stop and start the geode, the regions aren't repopulating with the stored data, which I was expecting. Is there a way to do that?

When I restart, in Pulse I see the empty regions (ignore the heartbeats in the 3 regions) all in the lower rhs as below:

Answer 1

This was my fault by clearing down the disk stores to try and answer this question. Once I realised and restored the disk stores from backup they worked as expected: