# Index from restore larger than source index?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-from-restore-larger-than-source-index/300012>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** snapshot-and-restore\
**Created:** [March 18, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-from-restore-larger-than-source-index/300012 "2022-03-18T08:18:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Rahmat\_Agung\_W](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@Rahmat\_Agung\_W](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rahmat_Agung_W)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-from-restore-larger-than-source-index/300012/1 "2022-03-18T08:18:00Z")

</div>

Hi, so I have 2 Elasticsearch cluster (A and B). I create snapshot from cluster A and then restore it to cluster B. I use 1 index replica on cluster A and in cluster B I change my index replica to 2. The result is like below.

 ![Screen Shot 2022-03-18 at 15.05.34](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/9/590e9371ac700eb37fd4d4d2c51df2462b3863ab.jpeg)

cluster A on below and cluster B on above. As you can see, my restored index on cluster B has much bigger size than the cluster A, is it normal or I miss something here?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-from-restore-larger-than-source-index/300012/2 "2022-04-15T08:18:37Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.