Archive functionality and licensing

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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Hi,

I’m trying to clarify my understanding of the following paragraph from the documentation:

The archive functionality provides slower read-only access to older Elasticsearch data, for compliance or regulatory reasons, the occasional lookback or investigation, or to rehydrate parts of it. Access to the data is expected to be infrequent, and can therefore happen with limited performance and query capabilities.

For this, Elasticsearch can access older snapshot repositories going back to version 5. The legacy indices in the snapshot repository can either be restored or directly accessed through searchable snapshots so that the archived data won’t need to fully reside on local disks for access.

I understand that searchable snapshots are a licensed feature. However, I’d like to confirm whether a restore of those legacy indices from the snapshot repository also requires a license, or if the license requirement applies only to searchable snapshots.

Any clarification would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

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To restore any snapshots created on a version lower than the previous version, you need an Enterprise license.

For example, to restore a snapshot created on version 7 on a version 9 cluster, you need an enterprise license.

This is the Snapshot as simple archives feature on the subscription page.

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Thanks Leandro for the clarification.
Best regards.
Javier.