# Restore an Elasticsearch 6.2 to Elasticsearch 7.7?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-an-elasticsearch-6-2-to-elasticsearch-7-7/252995>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 22, 2020, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-an-elasticsearch-6-2-to-elasticsearch-7-7/252995 "2020-10-22T11:55:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![tonibirrer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tonibirrer/32/77690_2.png) [@tonibirrer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tonibirrer)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-an-elasticsearch-6-2-to-elasticsearch-7-7/252995/1 "2020-10-22T11:55:21Z")

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Hi,

Based on the reference documentation it should be possible to restore a snapshot taken on Elastic 6.x on a 7.x cluster: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/snapshot-restore.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/snapshot-restore.html)

I've tried this with no success. What I did is this:

- Create a fs repo in the 6.2 cluster
- Take a snapshot
- Copy entire repo folder to 7.7 cluster
- Create fs repo with copied files in 7.7 cluster

When i now try to list the snapshots in the repo, i get an empty list back

```auto
curl -X GET "localhost:9200/_cat/snapshots/myrepo?v"
id status start_epoch start_time end_epoch end_time duration indices successful_shards failed_shards total_shards

```

No warnings or errors in the logs.  
When i create a new snapshot on 7.7 its created and then is also listed with the above command, but the 6.2 snapshot remains missing.

Any idea what I might do wrong? Do I misread the documentation and it not supported?

Best,  
Toni

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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:** [November 19, 2020, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-an-elasticsearch-6-2-to-elasticsearch-7-7/252995/2 "2020-11-19T11:55:25Z")

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