# Avoiding particulat indices during restoration

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-particulat-indices-during-restoration/33186>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 28, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-particulat-indices-during-restoration/33186 "2015-10-28T19:47:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![vinod\_rao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3e96dc/32.png) [@vinod\_rao](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vinod_rao)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-particulat-indices-during-restoration/33186/1 "2015-10-28T19:47:26Z")

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Team,

Is it possible to avoid an indice during restoration ?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-particulat-indices-during-restoration/33186/2 "2015-10-28T23:47:54Z")

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Yes, look at the `indices` section here [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-snapshots.html#\_restore](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-snapshots.html#_restore)

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**Author:** ![vinod\_rao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3e96dc/32.png) [@vinod\_rao](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vinod_rao)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-particulat-indices-during-restoration/33186/3 "2015-10-29T23:10:32Z")

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Thank you warkolm. I verified that but in that we will menition the list of indices to be restore but i want to ignore only one indice and restore all other indices. How can we mention that?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 4:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-particulat-indices-during-restoration/33186/4 "2015-10-30T04:33:17Z")

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As it mentions in the docs, you can use [this([https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/multi-index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/multi-index.html)), eg `-indexA`.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-particulat-indices-during-restoration/33186/5 "2017-07-05T23:41:50Z")

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