# Archive old index and compress it further to decrease the size of index?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archive-old-index-and-compress-it-further-to-decrease-the-size-of-index/227876>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 14, 2020, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archive-old-index-and-compress-it-further-to-decrease-the-size-of-index/227876 "2020-04-14T09:11:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![lusynda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lusynda/32/53557_2.png) [@lusynda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lusynda)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archive-old-index-and-compress-it-further-to-decrease-the-size-of-index/227876/1 "2020-04-14T09:11:15Z")

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Hi all  
Currently in my cluster i have been logging more than 20TB of log file, i was wondering if there is any way to somehow archive those old index in to some where that could help me decrease the size of it to store it since i cannot keep asking for more hardware.  
I have been looking in to hot cold architecture but it does not solve my problems of decreasing the size of index.  
I have use the best\_compression codec to compress the data and it does not help much.

Thanks for your time.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archive-old-index-and-compress-it-further-to-decrease-the-size-of-index/227876/2 "2020-05-12T09:11:16Z")

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