# Could I move legacy indexes data to data stream

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-i-move-legacy-indexes-data-to-data-stream/257951>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 8, 2020, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-i-move-legacy-indexes-data-to-data-stream/257951 "2020-12-08T08:04:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![zakabluk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8baadc/32.png) [@zakabluk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zakabluk)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-i-move-legacy-indexes-data-to-data-stream/257951/1 "2020-12-08T08:04:06Z")

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I have ELK in aws elasticsearch 6.8. Now a created new ELK cluster 7.9. I want move some indexes by snapshots to cluster 7.9 . But new cluster use data stream for store indexes. How I can did it? Why? I have indexes which living 60 days and I wan't wait this time when new cluster ingest this.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-i-move-legacy-indexes-data-to-data-stream/257951/2 "2020-12-08T21:51:10Z")

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Is this the aws service, or running on ec2?

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**Author:** ![zakabluk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8baadc/32.png) [@zakabluk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zakabluk)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-i-move-legacy-indexes-data-to-data-stream/257951/3 "2020-12-09T12:33:45Z")

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My old ELK this is AWS elasticsearch service and I am able make snapshots. My new cluster there is my own servers.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-i-move-legacy-indexes-data-to-data-stream/257951/4 "2020-12-09T21:18:29Z")

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You don't need to move things to datastreams if you don't want, you can just restore your snapshots to the new cluster.

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**Author:** ![zakabluk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8baadc/32.png) [@zakabluk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zakabluk)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 7:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-i-move-legacy-indexes-data-to-data-stream/257951/5 "2020-12-10T07:37:45Z")

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I see! Thanks!

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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 7, 2021, 7:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-i-move-legacy-indexes-data-to-data-stream/257951/6 "2021-01-07T07:37:53Z")

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