# Migrating 7.17 to 8.0 (With Frozen Indices and Searchable Snapshots)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrating-7-17-to-8-0-with-frozen-indices-and-searchable-snapshots/328106>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** frozen-indices\
**Created:** [March 20, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrating-7-17-to-8-0-with-frozen-indices-and-searchable-snapshots/328106 "2023-03-20T20:09:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![pkward](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pkward/32/95305_2.png) [@pkward](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pkward)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrating-7-17-to-8-0-with-frozen-indices-and-searchable-snapshots/328106/1 "2023-03-20T20:09:25Z")

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Hello,

I'm migrating a cluster from 7.17 to 8.0 and I have frozen indices. I read in the documentation that the frozen action was removed or deprecated in version 8, so I wanted to know I can I safely migrate to version without losing any data?

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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:** [March 22, 2023, 12:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrating-7-17-to-8-0-with-frozen-indices-and-searchable-snapshots/328106/2 "2023-03-22T00:15:21Z")

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Are you doing a rolling upgrade for this?

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**Author:** ![pkward](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pkward/32/95305_2.png) [@pkward](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pkward)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 1:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrating-7-17-to-8-0-with-frozen-indices-and-searchable-snapshots/328106/3 "2023-03-22T01:15:23Z")

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Yes, I am planning to do a rolling upgrade.

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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:** [April 19, 2023, 1:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrating-7-17-to-8-0-with-frozen-indices-and-searchable-snapshots/328106/4 "2023-04-19T01:16:15Z")

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