# Is it possible to have elastic search index documents in 2 locations?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-have-elastic-search-index-documents-in-2-locations/106350
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 3, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-have-elastic-search-index-documents-in-2-locations/106350 "2017-11-03T17:25:52Z")
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### Author:  [@nsur1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nsur1)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-have-elastic-search-index-documents-in-2-locations/106350/1 "2017-11-03T17:25:52Z")
I want to know if it is possible for elasticsearch to index documents into 2 directories. One for me to use, and then another as a backup. I want to create a mirror of all the indices as a backup.
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-have-elastic-search-index-documents-in-2-locations/106350/2 "2017-11-03T18:16:37Z")
It depends on exactly you mean by backup. 🙂
If you have multiple ES servers then the default configuration has a replica for each shard. This protects you against a single machine failure -- the replica shard is promoted and continues providing service, and if another server is available a new replica is spun up on it.
If you are running on a single server and want to backup and restore data then [snapshot](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-snapshots.html) might be what you are looking for.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-have-elastic-search-index-documents-in-2-locations/106350/3 "2017-12-01T18:16:42Z")
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