# Manually backup data from frozer tier

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-backup-data-from-frozer-tier/320730>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** snapshot-and-restore\
**Created:** [December 8, 2022, 3:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-backup-data-from-frozer-tier/320730 "2022-12-08T03:42:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![dimitris\_sb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@dimitris\_sb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dimitris_sb)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 3:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-backup-data-from-frozer-tier/320730/1 "2022-12-08T03:42:24Z")

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Hi All,

What would be the correct way to make an independent backup (snapshot) of data in the frozen tier? If I take a snapshot of these indices, will the backup be usable as indices from hot/warm/cold tier or it will actually try to find the connected/mounted snapshot created by ILM in the default s3 bucket?

Thank you in advance for your insight

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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 8, 2022, 4:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-backup-data-from-frozer-tier/320730/2 "2022-12-08T04:42:14Z")

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Snapshots by default can be restored to any/all nodes on a cluster irrespective of any tiering you have.

You can set allocation filtering to force the restoration to allocate them to specific nodes.

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**Author:** ![dimitris\_sb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@dimitris\_sb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dimitris_sb)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-backup-data-from-frozer-tier/320730/3 "2022-12-12T17:06:44Z")

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So, I understand that there is no issue/dependency with the existing snapshot the ILM has created for the frozen tier; the new snapshot will contain all necessary data.

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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 9, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-backup-data-from-frozer-tier/320730/4 "2023-01-09T17:07:02Z")

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