# Export and re import templates

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-and-re-import-templates/170597>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 2, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-and-re-import-templates/170597 "2019-03-02T18:11:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![niki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@niki](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/niki)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-and-re-import-templates/170597/1 "2019-03-02T18:11:37Z")

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if i do not care about my old data, is there any way to export an index template with dynamic fields and put it back after some changes into elasticsearch?

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**Author:** ![niki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@niki](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/niki)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-and-re-import-templates/170597/2 "2019-03-08T06:52:16Z")

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this blog post helped to solve : [https://www.elastic.co/blog/logstash\_lesson\_elasticsearch\_mapping](https://www.elastic.co/blog/logstash_lesson_elasticsearch_mapping)

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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:** [April 5, 2019, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-and-re-import-templates/170597/3 "2019-04-05T06:52:28Z")

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