# Copying elastic indexes **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 16, 2018, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/copying-elastic-indexes/140106 "2018-07-16T08:43:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![safhw91](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@safhw91](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/safhw91)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/copying-elastic-indexes/140106/3 "2018-07-16T09:05:45Z")
> [@How to move Elasticsearch indexes from one server to another one](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-move-elasticsearch-indexes-from-one-server-to-another-one/31909/15): > > Hi Mark, Can you please elaborate on the option of copying files. We are looking for a super fast copying of an index (1 Shard, Read-Only, ~5GB, ~1M documents) from an indexing cluster to a query cluster. The source cluster has 0 replicas target cluster has 47 replicas. When using backup-restore it is taking ~20Min. How can we take advantage of the fact that the index is merged and is read only for taking the minimal path. Any thoughts on the subject would be appreciated! Baruch. You, apparently 🙂 I understand it is nearly almost guaranteed to be unsupported. But I can live with that if in theory it should work. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/copying-elastic-indexes/140106)._