# Clone production cluster **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 12, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clone-production-cluster/199300 "2019-09-12T17:50:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bana201](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bana201](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bana201)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clone-production-cluster/199300/1 "2019-09-12T17:50:29Z")
I'm new to elasticsearch and would like to know the best way to do this basically I'm trying to clone a production cluster and then use it for testing it needs to be a complete copy and should not interrupt the production cluster I thought about adding a new node to the production cluster and increase the number of replicas then separate that node and rename it as a new cluster Is there a better way? ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 5:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clone-production-cluster/199300/2 "2019-09-13T05:00:04Z")
Use the snapshot and restore mechanism and two completely separate clusters. The approach you described is not supported and unlikely to work, at least if you have a reasonably recent version of Elasticsearch. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 5:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clone-production-cluster/199300/3 "2019-10-11T05:00:06Z")
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