# Important system indices **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** snapshot-and-restore\ **Created:** [November 6, 2022, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/important-system-indices/318248 "2022-11-06T07:02:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![QuestBevan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/858c86/32.png) [@QuestBevan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/QuestBevan)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/important-system-indices/318248/1 "2022-11-06T07:02:54Z")
Hi All, Struggling to find a post detailing important system indices that should be backed up. Can someone provide a list of what should be backed up? My use case, is if our cluster was to corrupt, yes the data in it is a loss, but we can re-ingest start from scratch. What we can't start from scratch is all the visualisations, dashboards, searches and ingest pipelines. I have noted i should backup .logstash and .kibana\* but anything else? ---
**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:** [November 7, 2022, 3:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/important-system-indices/318248/2 "2022-11-07T03:40:32Z")
If you're running 8.X then check out [Snapshot and restore | Elasticsearch Guide [8.5] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.5/snapshot-restore.html#feature-state) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 3:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/important-system-indices/318248/3 "2022-12-05T03:41:29Z")
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