# Moving data from multi node to single node cluster **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 12, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/moving-data-from-multi-node-to-single-node-cluster/34454 "2015-11-12T19:01:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lhorsky1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@lhorsky1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lhorsky1)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/moving-data-from-multi-node-to-single-node-cluster/34454/1 "2015-11-12T19:01:42Z")
We have a 2 data node cluster (with a dedicated master) and we would like to move the older indices off to a backup cluster. The backup cluster is a single node server (master and data). I have closed all of the older indices that we would like to move. We will eventually use curator for this, but in the meantime how do I move those indices? When it is a single node server, it is easy because I can just move the data to the elasticsearch/data/ directory. But how do I handle it when there are 2 data servers being merged into 1. Do I just copy the data from one of the servers (since it should be replicated)? Are there any gotchas with doing that? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/moving-data-from-multi-node-to-single-node-cluster/34454/2 "2017-07-05T23:38:51Z")