yes that did the trick
Thanks both for helping @DavidTurner too.
I am using CCR btw, the reason to not do it here is that there are a lot of smaller indices on the remote cluster that I 1) don't want to create following indices for since I have to create 1 for every index and 2) I would like to reindex to 1 index on my local cluster.
I created auto-follow indices for all new ones so this reindexing from the remote is a one off action
Thanks again!
Jeroen