Elastic search restore failure

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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I was trying to backup and restore ES to new cluster using below commands.

//take snapshot
curl -u backup:$password -s -XPUT ${endpoint}

//restore
curl -s -u backup:$password -X POST "${HOSTNAME}:${PORT}/_snapshot/${BACKUP}/$SNAPSHOT/_restore?wait_for_completion=true&pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d' {
  "indices": "*",
  "include_global_state": true}
  '

Restore is failing with below error in 8.17. which worked in 8.15.

failed to restore snapshot
org.elasticsearch.snapshots.SnapshotRestoreException: [my_restore_backup:snapshot-es-estestwithoutsvc-nh3rfy-0/OOBj_xvpRE2JvkhJGm9SXg] cannot restore index [.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2025.01.21-000001] because an open index with same name already exists in the cluster. Either close or delete the existing index or restore the index under a different name by providing a rename pattern and replacement name
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Hi @Karthiknathan_c !

Did you try doing what the error message says to do?

Also this wouldn't have worked in 8.15 either. No versions of ES support restoring an index on top of an open index with the same name.