# How to retrieve data using an Ember Local Storage Adapter?

**URL:** https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/how-to-retrieve-data-using-an-ember-local-storage-adapter/9422
**Category:** Ember Data
**Created:** [January 12, 2016, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/how-to-retrieve-data-using-an-ember-local-storage-adapter/9422 "2016-01-12T17:17:20Z")
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### Author: ![alexmngn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@alexmngn](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/alexmngn)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2016, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/how-to-retrieve-data-using-an-ember-local-storage-adapter/9422/1 "2016-01-12T17:17:20Z")

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Hello! I’m trying to understand how the [Ember Local Storage](https://github.com/funkensturm/ember-local-storage) addon works. It looks like when you use the local storage adapter, there is no way to make a request to the server anymore (tell me if I’m wrong).

So I was wondering if there is a way to retrieve my models from the server, and keep them saved in the local storage?

What is the best practise to do that?

Thanks.

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### Author: ![broerse](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/broerse/32/9497_2.png) [@broerse](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/broerse)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2016, 5:41am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/how-to-retrieve-data-using-an-ember-local-storage-adapter/9422/2 "2016-01-14T05:41:34Z")

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If you have a backend choice consider running CouchDB yourself or use Cloudant. It will enable you to use [ember-pouch](https://github.com/nolanlawson/ember-pouch) that retrieves models from the server and keep them saved in local storage using IndexedDB or WebSQL. See also:

- [GitHub - broerse/ember-cli-blog: Tom Dale's blog example updated for the Ember CLI](https://github.com/broerse/ember-cli-blog)
- [Myapp](http://bloggr.exmer.com/posts)