# Elastic search restore **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** snapshot-and-restore\ **Created:** [June 3, 2022, 11:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-restore/306329 "2022-06-03T11:37:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![A\_j\_xx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/a_j_xx/32/98491_2.png) [@A\_j\_xx](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/A_j_xx)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 11:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-restore/306329/1 "2022-06-03T11:37:25Z")
Hi , I am new at Elasticsearch and have some doubts regarding restore , as the documentation is not very thorough on these points . 1. Let us say i make some changes every time to my index and take a snapshot , now the number of snapshots have increased to more than 5 , if i restore the 3rd snapshot , then will the will the Elasticsearch restore all changes upto that point i.e including 1st , 2nd and 3 rd snapshot or will it only include changes from 2nd to 3rd snapshot ? 2. And what about read and write operations on the cluster at point of restore ,are they even blocked when restore is happening ? example- i am only restoring specific index "A", which is now closed , so while restoring the index "A" would Elasticsearch stop read and write operations on other indexes as well ? what would be the state of cluster in the time of snapshotting ---
**Author:** ![RabBit\_BR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rabbit_br/32/82261_2.png) [@RabBit\_BR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RabBit_BR)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-restore/306329/2 "2022-06-03T12:17:00Z")
Hi! Answer 1 It will restore the state when you took the 3rd snapshot. Answer 2 In my experience I didn't have any failure to read or write other indices while restoring another one, all in the same cluster. However it is just my experience. ---
**Author:** ![A\_j\_xx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/a_j_xx/32/98491_2.png) [@A\_j\_xx](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/A_j_xx)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-restore/306329/3 "2022-06-03T12:36:32Z")
Hi Andre , I am talking about what happens at the time of "restore" but not at time of taking a "snapshot" `And what about read and write operations on the cluster at point of restore ,are they blocked when restore is happening ?`. And can you tell me more about this point you have mentioned "When I use the snapshot, I direct the indexing requests to a queue (SQS) and wait for the snapshot to finish, after which I start reprocessing the docs that are in that queue." Can you also share some link to create queue(SQS) and use this service ? Thanks in advance !! ---
**Author:** ![RabBit\_BR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rabbit_br/32/82261_2.png) [@RabBit\_BR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RabBit_BR)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-restore/306329/4 "2022-06-03T12:55:45Z")
Sorry, I edited my answer. > [@A\_j\_xx](#): > > Você também pode compartilhar algum link para criar fila (SQS) e usar este serviço? I don't have a link that teaches how to create this architecture but what I can explain to you is that my application receives several events, processes them and sends them to an "SQS" queue, this queue is consumed by a lambda that reads the data from the queue and does the writing in my index. The entire environment is on AWS, so I chose this architecture. ---
**Author:** ![A\_j\_xx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/a_j_xx/32/98491_2.png) [@A\_j\_xx](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/A_j_xx)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-restore/306329/5 "2022-06-03T13:00:59Z")
Thanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-restore/306329/6 "2022-07-01T13:01:46Z")
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