# Clone production cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clone-production-cluster/199300>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 12, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clone-production-cluster/199300 "2019-09-12T17:50:29Z")\
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**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")

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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.

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