# Import/Export elastic DB data

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-export-elastic-db-data/101782>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 26, 2017, 6:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-export-elastic-db-data/101782 "2017-09-26T06:16:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![blueren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@blueren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/blueren)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 6:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-export-elastic-db-data/101782/1 "2017-09-26T06:16:22Z")

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Hi,

I have a moderate amount of netflow data present in my local instance of elasicsearch DB. I would like to export all of this data on to a fresh instance of elasticsearch present in a testing machine. Is there a way to do the same? (something similar to mongo dump db perhaps?)

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 6:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-export-elastic-db-data/101782/2 "2017-09-26T06:29:22Z")

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Have you looked into using [snapshot and restore](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/modules-snapshots.html)?

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**Author:** ![blueren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@blueren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/blueren)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-export-elastic-db-data/101782/3 "2017-09-27T10:27:17Z")

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> [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](#):
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> Have you looked into using snapshot and restore?

Thanks Chris!

I also read up on a tutorial explaining what needs to be done for snapshotting and restoring from [here](https://qbox.io/blog/elasticsearch-data-snapshots-restore-tutorial).  
However, when I run this command, after a few seconds, I end up with the response below. However, I do believe that elastic is doing something in the backend as I see constant load on my CPU. Is there a configurable parameter to set the timeout time?

```
{
  "statusCode": 504,
  "error": "Gateway Timeout",
  "message": "Client request timeout"
}

```

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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:** [October 25, 2017, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-export-elastic-db-data/101782/4 "2017-10-25T10:27:26Z")

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