# Downgrade Elastic Search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-elastic-search/289286>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 16, 2021, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-elastic-search/289286 "2021-11-16T09:10:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![Y\_MN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@Y\_MN](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Y_MN)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2021, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-elastic-search/289286/1 "2021-11-16T09:10:34Z")

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I need to upgrade ES from 7.10.2 to 7.14.1, and if something goes wrong, can I automatically roll back to the previous version?

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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:** [November 16, 2021, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-elastic-search/289286/2 "2021-11-16T09:14:56Z")

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No, Elasticsearch does not support downgrades. You need to make sure you have a snapshot taken using the snapshot API that you can restore if you want to go back to the older version.

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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:** [November 16, 2021, 10:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-elastic-search/289286/3 "2021-11-16T22:17:45Z")

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Also please note it's Elasticsearch, not `Elastic Search` 🙂

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**Author:** ![Y\_MN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@Y\_MN](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Y_MN)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 5:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-elastic-search/289286/4 "2021-11-17T05:49:52Z")

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Thanks!),

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**Author:** ![Y\_MN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@Y\_MN](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Y_MN)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-elastic-search/289286/5 "2021-11-19T09:56:36Z")

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can i use vsphere to snapshot repo?

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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:** [November 19, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-elastic-search/289286/6 "2021-11-19T10:32:13Z")

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You need to use the [snapshot API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.15/snapshot-restore-apis.html). Storage level snapshots are not supported and may not work.

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**Author:** ![Y\_MN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@Y\_MN](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Y_MN)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-elastic-search/289286/7 "2021-11-19T11:04:03Z")

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can i ask you one more time? so i can use only 4 type : S3, HDFS , Azure or Google Cloud Storage?

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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:** [November 19, 2021, 11:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-elastic-search/289286/8 "2021-11-19T11:20:41Z")

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The default is shared storage, e.g. NFS volume.

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**Author:** ![Y\_MN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@Y\_MN](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Y_MN)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2021, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-elastic-search/289286/9 "2021-11-29T11:03:48Z")

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Hi Christian,  
can i use statefulset and make snapshot for it?

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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:** [December 27, 2021, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-elastic-search/289286/10 "2021-12-27T11:04:09Z")

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