How to copy indices from one cluster to other with settings

[elk11]

Hi,

I want to copy indices (with settings and everything related to that index) from one cluster to other.

But according to reindex documentation:
" Reindex does not attempt to set up the destination index. It does not copy the settings of the source index. You should set up the destination index prior to running a_reindexaction, including setting up mappings, shard counts, replicas, etc."

So how do i do that? My indices have number of fields greater than default value 1000.
So I'm getting below error while reindexing:

"cause" : {
        "type" : "illegal_argument_exception",
        "reason" : "Limit of total fields [1000] in index [my-index] has been exceeded"
      },
      "status" : 400

And i cannot create and copy settings manually for each index as there are around 100 indices to be copied.

[elk11]

I'm doing this to fix mapping conflicts in my indices. So copying them to different elk instance with settings and then copying back to the original instance with new mapping.

[Christian_Dahlqvist]

This sounds like a good use case for snapshot and restore. You may also be able to reindex into a new index with updated mappings locally and then use an alias to switch.