# Import index saved without snapshot

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-index-saved-without-snapshot/49931>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 12, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-index-saved-without-snapshot/49931 "2016-05-12T19:25:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Juan\_Andres\_Ramirez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/juan_andres_ramirez/32/9467_2.png) [@Juan\_Andres\_Ramirez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juan_Andres_Ramirez)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-index-saved-without-snapshot/49931/1 "2016-05-12T19:25:47Z")

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Hello,  
Before changed my ELK version to v.2.0 I saved some index manually, just copy the data directory and paste in other server. I didn't have copy with snapshot system, in these times I was very newbie in ELK, now I know I must be save my indexes in a backup copy with "backup/restore".  
My question is if exist any way to import these indexes or other way to recover the data, because I really need recover some data from these indexes.

Thank you.

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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:** [May 13, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-index-saved-without-snapshot/49931/2 "2016-05-13T00:00:04Z")

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You can try to shutdown ES, copy the data back, then start it up and see if it'll recover it.  
But there's no guarantee it will.

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**Author:** ![Juan\_Andres\_Ramirez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/juan_andres_ramirez/32/9467_2.png) [@Juan\_Andres\_Ramirez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juan_Andres_Ramirez)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-index-saved-without-snapshot/49931/3 "2016-05-13T13:57:25Z")

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Hello Warkolm,  
Any way to convert into xml or file to save data?.

Thank you.

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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:** [May 13, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-index-saved-without-snapshot/49931/4 "2016-05-13T13:57:50Z")

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Not that I am aware of.

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**Author:** ![Juan\_Andres\_Ramirez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/juan_andres_ramirez/32/9467_2.png) [@Juan\_Andres\_Ramirez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juan_Andres_Ramirez)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-index-saved-without-snapshot/49931/5 "2016-05-13T16:01:52Z")

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omg, I can not believe ELK not have a tools to import directly from its files.  
And I cannot read the files with other tool to try get data manually.....

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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, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-index-saved-without-snapshot/49931/6 "2017-07-05T22:51:43Z")

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