Open index on restore snapshot action

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Am trying to move our ELK stack to a different machine to verify backup/restore procedure. A snapshot has been created on machine A, after creating a Repository.
Moved full repository directory to machine B, added the repository on that machine.
Snapshots created on machine A are detected on machine B, so tried to load the snapshot on machine B using
POST /_snapshot/virt06/snapshot-number-one/_restore
When performing the restore action, it fails on the fact one of the indexes is in use:

 "error" : {
   "root_cause" : [
     {
       "type" : "snapshot_restore_exception",
       "reason" : "[virt06:snapshot-number-one/273qaO3DRx2HdERZTzvmEw] cannot restore index [.security-7] because an open index with same name already exists in the cluster. Either close or delete the existing index or restore the index under a different name by providing a rename pattern and replacement name"
     }
   ],
   "type" : "snapshot_restore_exception",
   "reason" : "[virt06:snapshot-number-one/273qaO3DRx2HdERZTzvmEw] cannot restore index [.security-7] because an open index with same name already exists in the cluster. Either close or delete the existing index or restore the index under a different name by providing a rename pattern and replacement name"
 },
 "status" : 500
}

Closing the index results in a non functional ELK cluster.

Any ideas how to properly perform a restore action?

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You may want to specify the indices you want to restore (that would be your indices of your application, not the security specific ones).

See https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.6/snapshots-restore-snapshot.html

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