# Cold Tier ILM auto restore

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cold-tier-ilm-auto-restore/322574>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 5, 2023, 7:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cold-tier-ilm-auto-restore/322574 "2023-01-05T19:53:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Safty](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/safty/32/112921_2.png) [@Safty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Safty)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 7:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cold-tier-ilm-auto-restore/322574/1 "2023-01-05T19:53:34Z")

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I have been working with cold tier ILM policies and noticed that as soon as the data is written to the cold tier as a snapshot it is immediately restored to local cache. No searches are taking place, this is during the ingest phase of a Rally race.

Is this by design?

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**Author:** ![Safty](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/safty/32/112921_2.png) [@Safty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Safty)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cold-tier-ilm-auto-restore/322574/2 "2023-01-05T20:27:06Z")

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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:** [February 2, 2023, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cold-tier-ilm-auto-restore/322574/3 "2023-02-02T20:28:03Z")

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