# Copy Watcher Rules from Production cluster to DR cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/copy-watcher-rules-from-production-cluster-to-dr-cluster/258712>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [December 15, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/copy-watcher-rules-from-production-cluster-to-dr-cluster/258712 "2020-12-15T12:19:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![jancodenew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@jancodenew](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jancodenew)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/copy-watcher-rules-from-production-cluster-to-dr-cluster/258712/1 "2020-12-15T12:19:46Z")

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Hi,

Please help me to copy the watcher rules from prod cluster to DR cluster.

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![ylasri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ylasri/32/86120_2.png) [@ylasri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ylasri)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/copy-watcher-rules-from-production-cluster-to-dr-cluster/258712/2 "2020-12-21T22:03:52Z")

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Watchers are stored in an indx `.watches`  
So can either configure a snapshot then restore on your DR cluster  
or user Cross cluster replication

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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:** [January 18, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/copy-watcher-rules-from-production-cluster-to-dr-cluster/258712/3 "2021-01-18T22:04:01Z")

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