Moving over snapshot to another system doesn't get added to registered repo

[hishamnajem (Hisham)]

I am taking a snapshot on system 1 and transferring the index-X, index.latest, meta-... and snap-.... over to system 2 under the same registered repo. System 2 does not find snapshot for restore.

On SYSTEM 1:
--> curl -X PUT "X.X.X.X:9200/_snapshot/es_backup?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'{ "type":"fs", "settings": { "location": "/var/lib/backups/es-snapshots" } }' SUCCESS
--> curl -XPUT "http://X.X.X.X:9200/_snapshot/es_backup/testsnap?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d' { "indices": "filebeat-7.15.0-2022.03.28-000167", "ignore_unavailable": true, "include_global_state": true}' SUCCESS

--> SCP to SYSTEM2 under same path.repo path.
on System 2:
curl -X GET "XXXX:9200/_snapshot/es_backup/_all?pretty"
{
"snapshots" : ,
"total" : 0,
"remaining" : 0
}
How can I make system 2 aware of the snapshot?

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

Welcome to our community!

What is the scp command you are running?
Also please format your code/logs/config using the </> button, or markdown style back ticks. It helps to make things easy to read which helps us help you

[DavidTurner]

See this note in the docs:

Don’t modify anything within the repository or run processes that might interfere with its contents. ... You may however safely restore a repository from a backup

It sounds like you are modifying the contents of a repository but you are not following the proper procedure for restoring a repository from a backup.

[hishamnajem (Hisham)]

Sorry I meant I'm simply winscp'ing it over to the other machine.
I'm following these steps: https://kifarunix.com/restore-elasticsearch-snapshot-to-another-cluster/

[DavidTurner]

I'm not sure the steps in that article really work, at least not reliably. You should follow the instructions in the reference manual.

[hishamnajem (Hisham)]

Thank you, the docs truly are the best reference if you read them carefully :).