# Getting "failed to find metadata for existing index location" when trying to load existing data from a different cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-failed-to-find-metadata-for-existing-index-location-when-trying-to-load-existing-data-from-a-different-cluster/18792>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 22, 2014, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-failed-to-find-metadata-for-existing-index-location-when-trying-to-load-existing-data-from-a-different-cluster/18792 "2014-07-22T13:33:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Russ\_Lavoie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7c8e57/32.png) [@Russ\_Lavoie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Russ_Lavoie)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-failed-to-find-metadata-for-existing-index-location-when-trying-to-load-existing-data-from-a-different-cluster/18792/1 "2014-07-22T13:33:12Z")

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Good morning,

I am getting the error "failed to find metadata for existing index  
location" when setting the logging to debug in elasticsearch when I try to  
load data that originated from a different cluster. Here is what I did.

Elastic version 0.90.5 (Unable to upgrade to 1.x at the moment to utilize  
snapshots.)

1. disabled translog flushing to disk (to get a consistent backup)
2. Backed up the data
3. Copied the data to a new system (elastic is currently stopped)
4. Changed the data directory name to the new cluster name
5. chown -R elasticsearch.elasticsearch /mnt/elasticsearch/
6. started elasticsearch and got the above debug message.

I am unsure how I can fix this issue.

Can I get some assistance?

Thanks

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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 6, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-failed-to-find-metadata-for-existing-index-location-when-trying-to-load-existing-data-from-a-different-cluster/18792/2 "2017-07-06T01:14:14Z")

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