# How can I move data from one disk to another?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-move-data-from-one-disk-to-another/39732>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 21, 2016, 5:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-move-data-from-one-disk-to-another/39732 "2016-01-21T05:59:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![thyfere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@thyfere](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thyfere)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 5:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-move-data-from-one-disk-to-another/39732/1 "2016-01-21T05:59:04Z")

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As per discussion at [Why Cluster Status is Red, please help](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-cluster-status-is-red-please-help/39659/2), I am thinking to move my data files to another faster volume. What is the standard procedure?

Second, if I change the node name, will it affect the indexes?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-move-data-from-one-disk-to-another/39732/2 "2016-01-21T06:09:49Z")

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Depends how you have things setup now in relation to mounts and ES config.

You can change node name, it won't impact data stored. But changing cluster name will.

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**Author:** ![thyfere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@thyfere](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thyfere)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-move-data-from-one-disk-to-another/39732/3 "2016-01-21T06:14:37Z")

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I am running ELK stack on two Windows boxes. One is for Elasticsearch and Kibana and the other one is for Logstash. I am dumping logs on a mounted NAS (Synology) volume. I didn't change anything in ES config file except the path.data and node name.

Let me know, if you need any further information.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-move-data-from-one-disk-to-another/39732/4 "2016-01-21T06:16:06Z")

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> [@thyfere](#):
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> except the path.data

That's what I mean.

You'll need to change that to the new path and then copy the data over.

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**Author:** ![thyfere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@thyfere](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thyfere)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-move-data-from-one-disk-to-another/39732/5 "2016-01-21T06:17:48Z")

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So, first should I stop the ES service, right?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-move-data-from-one-disk-to-another/39732/6 "2016-01-21T06:18:29Z")

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Yeah, definitely.

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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, 11:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-move-data-from-one-disk-to-another/39732/7 "2017-07-05T23:22:43Z")

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