# How to copy/run an indices from another system

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-copy-run-an-indices-from-another-system/62066>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 3, 2016, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-copy-run-an-indices-from-another-system/62066 "2016-10-03T12:54:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![jagan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jagan/32/42200_2.png) [@jagan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jagan)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-copy-run-an-indices-from-another-system/62066/1 "2016-10-03T12:54:44Z")

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Hi team,  
Could you please suggest me how to copy/run the indices from another system?  
As per my requirement i have taken the indices which is generated in another system which i need to copy & run the indices in my system.  
I have created the 'template' ,which is working fine.since i have copied the indices directly(manually) into the indices (in Local system) .  
The issue is that i created the template gel-\*.All the indices i.e gel-2016.08.28,gel-2016.08.29 and gel-2016.08.30 directly copied into local ES.  
when i check with GET/gel-2016.08.30/\_search' i get the index missing exception.

Thanks in advance  
jagan

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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:** [October 4, 2016, 3:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-copy-run-an-indices-from-another-system/62066/2 "2016-10-04T03:13:48Z")

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You should use snapshot and restore instead of manually copying things - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.4/modules-snapshots.html#\_snapshot](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.4/modules-snapshots.html#_snapshot)

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**Author:** ![jagan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jagan/32/42200_2.png) [@jagan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jagan)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 5:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-copy-run-an-indices-from-another-system/62066/3 "2016-10-05T05:13:56Z")

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Thanks for the reply Mark.But i still have my issue pending

As i tried with snapshot and restore i think (which is for distributed  
clustering) as my specification is to do with standalone cluster(in  
localsystem).How should i proceed.

Thanks,  
jagan

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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, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-copy-run-an-indices-from-another-system/62066/4 "2017-07-05T22:14:56Z")

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