# Elasticsearch Index allocation: How do I do it?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-allocation-how-do-i-do-it/46469>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 6, 2016, 4:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-allocation-how-do-i-do-it/46469 "2016-04-06T04:52:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![shadyabhi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@shadyabhi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shadyabhi)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 4:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-allocation-how-do-i-do-it/46469/1 "2016-04-06T04:52:14Z")

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Hi All,

I've the use case of storing logs in ES. For that, I want newer indices to reside on a different set of ES nodes than the older indices. Both nodes should however be in the same cluster. I see that we have a doc for that but it doesn't work it seems. [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/retiring-data.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/retiring-data.html)

I get this error while trying to move the index.

```
curl -XPOST localhost:9210/akamai_cloudmonitor_media-prod.20160405-21/_settings -d '{ "index.routing.allocation.include.box_type" : "storage" }'
{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"mapper_parsing_exception","reason":"Field name [index.routing.allocation.include.box_type] cannot contain '.'"}],"type":"mapper_parsing_exception","reason":"Field name [index.routing.allocation.include.box_type] cannot contain '.'"},"status":400}%

```

What's the "current" way of doing this?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 5:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-allocation-how-do-i-do-it/46469/2 "2016-04-06T05:10:16Z")

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Use `PUT` instead of `POST`.

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**Author:** ![shadyabhi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@shadyabhi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shadyabhi)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 5:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-allocation-how-do-i-do-it/46469/4 "2016-04-06T05:22:38Z")

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THanks @dadoonet, that seems to be working. I feel stupid now.

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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:** [April 6, 2016, 5:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-allocation-how-do-i-do-it/46469/5 "2016-04-06T05:35:58Z")

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This can be done through [Curator](https://github.com/elastic/curator) using the principles outlined in this [blog post](https://www.elastic.co/blog/hot-warm-architecture).

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 5:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-allocation-how-do-i-do-it/46469/6 "2016-04-06T05:41:39Z")

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Be happy that you did not run `DELETE` by mistake 😛

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-allocation-how-do-i-do-it/46469/7 "2017-07-05T23:02:03Z")

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