# Backward compatibility from ES 5.6.4 to 5.6.3 for snapshots
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backward-compatibility-from-es-5-6-4-to-5-6-3-for-snapshots/117017
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 25, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backward-compatibility-from-es-5-6-4-to-5-6-3-for-snapshots/117017 "2018-01-25T09:51:12Z")
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### Author:  [@hillel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hillel)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backward-compatibility-from-es-5-6-4-to-5-6-3-for-snapshots/117017/1 "2018-01-25T09:51:13Z")
We have snapshots that were done on an ES cluster running 5.6.4 that we would like to restore in a 5.6.3 cluster. Is this supposed to work? If so, how? We have tried several times without success. Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backward-compatibility-from-es-5-6-4-to-5-6-3-for-snapshots/117017/2 "2018-01-25T10:06:19Z")
It might work although not really supported as Lucene as not been updated in the meantime.
Would be better though to upgrade your 5.6.3 cluster.
What are the error messages?
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### Author:  [@hillel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hillel)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backward-compatibility-from-es-5-6-4-to-5-6-3-for-snapshots/117017/3 "2018-01-25T17:19:38Z")
Thanks for your response! This is the error message that we received:
TransportError: TransportError(500, u'snapshot\_restore\_exception', u'[snapshot name] the snapshot was created with Elasticsearch version [5.6.4] which is higher than the version of this node [5.6.3]')
So it looks like there is not backward compatibility here.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 5:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backward-compatibility-from-es-5-6-4-to-5-6-3-for-snapshots/117017/4 "2018-01-25T17:35:49Z")
Ha!
So that's very obvious that you can't do that anymore.
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### Author:  [@hillel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hillel)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backward-compatibility-from-es-5-6-4-to-5-6-3-for-snapshots/117017/5 "2018-01-29T15:08:42Z")
So, now an additional question. Lets say that we upgrade to ES 5.6.4. Will we be able to restore snapshots from ES 5.6.3 in the upgraded ES?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backward-compatibility-from-es-5-6-4-to-5-6-3-for-snapshots/117017/6 "2018-01-29T15:20:26Z")
Yes.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backward-compatibility-from-es-5-6-4-to-5-6-3-for-snapshots/117017/7 "2018-02-26T15:20:30Z")
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