# Indexing to index2

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-to-index2/257919>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 7, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-to-index2/257919 "2020-12-07T22:27:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Eddie\_Adams](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eddie_adams/32/5219_2.png) [@Eddie\_Adams](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eddie_Adams)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-to-index2/257919/1 "2020-12-07T22:27:14Z")

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Is it possible to make an index1 readonly and index documents not present in index1 to index2?

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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:** [December 7, 2020, 10:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-to-index2/257919/2 "2020-12-07T22:33:22Z")

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Is this a general Elasticsearch question, or specific to Enterprise Search?

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**Author:** ![Eddie\_Adams](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eddie_adams/32/5219_2.png) [@Eddie\_Adams](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eddie_Adams)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-to-index2/257919/3 "2020-12-07T22:36:22Z")

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General. Wrong category?

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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:** [December 7, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-to-index2/257919/4 "2020-12-07T22:36:49Z")

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You could do this, but you'd need to handle the logic outside of Elasticsearch.

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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:** [January 4, 2021, 10:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-to-index2/257919/5 "2021-01-04T22:37:04Z")

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