# Is it possible to Snapshot ElasticSearch cluster on the Local Pc Machine

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-snapshot-elasticsearch-cluster-on-the-local-pc-machine/192232>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 25, 2019, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-snapshot-elasticsearch-cluster-on-the-local-pc-machine/192232 "2019-07-25T11:18:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thilak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@Thilak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thilak)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-snapshot-elasticsearch-cluster-on-the-local-pc-machine/192232/1 "2019-07-25T11:18:09Z")

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Hi i have been working on migrating elastic search cluster from one service to another.Experimenting snapshot elastic-search cluster for migration. Is it possible to snapshot elastic-search cluster on local pc machine. if it's possible, how?

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**Author:** ![William\_Brafford](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/william_brafford/32/51559_2.png) [@William\_Brafford](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/William_Brafford)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-snapshot-elasticsearch-cluster-on-the-local-pc-machine/192232/2 "2019-08-02T21:27:09Z")

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I am assuming from question that your clusters are not running on the local PC machine. The [Snapshot API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-snapshots.html) would not really be the right tool for copying a remote cluster's data to the filesystem on your PC.

However, you may want to look into how to "[reindex from remote](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-reindex.html#reindex-from-remote)". If you have enough disk and memory on your local PC, you could start a cluster on your PC and copy the remote cluster's indices over to it.

I am not sure which services you are using, but I would also consider looking at using a [repository plugin](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-snapshots.html#_repository_plugins) to snapshot data to a cloud provider's storage repository, as a way of moving data from one cluster to the other.

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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:** [August 30, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-snapshot-elasticsearch-cluster-on-the-local-pc-machine/192232/3 "2019-08-30T21:27:12Z")

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