# Error when restoring snapshot to a new stack

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-restoring-snapshot-to-a-new-stack/375461>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-searchable-snapshots\
**Created:** [March 5, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-restoring-snapshot-to-a-new-stack/375461 "2025-03-05T14:00:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![koffe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b487fb/32.png) [@koffe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/koffe)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-restoring-snapshot-to-a-new-stack/375461/1 "2025-03-05T14:00:39Z")

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Hi!

I am trying to move my saved snapshots from my old stack to a new one. For some of my snapshots i get the following message:

"searchable snapshots indices may be converted only within the same repository"

What i have understod about this is that the searchable snapshots are tied to the repository they where created in. And since my new repository is not identical to the old one this problem occures.

Is there a any workaround for this? The other snapshots which are not searchable snapshots work fine to restore.