# Restore kibana index **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [January 3, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-kibana-index/162806 "2019-01-03T12:42:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ludovic9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@Ludovic9](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ludovic9)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-kibana-index/162806/1 "2019-01-03T12:42:25Z")
Hello, I would like to perfom a restore of my production environnment in my test environnment. I have two clusters, they share the same folder for the snapshot. On production, I do a snapshot of my indices specially .kibana-6 who contains all saved searched, dashboards etc... On test cluster who have the .kibana index, I do a restore action with curator, I see my .kibana-6 index but he's not "active" because I already have an .kibana index. How I can do a restore to have my .kibana index from the snapshot and use it ? Test server : 6.4.2 production server : 6.3.0 The main goal is to snapshot indices from production, restore in test, and upgrade test cluster in 6.5.X and see if everithing is OK. Thank you for you help. ---
**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-kibana-index/162806/2 "2019-01-03T23:54:24Z")
I believe in your production environment Kibana is pointing to `.kibana`, which is the default. This is an alias pointing to your `.kibana-6` index. It sounds like before you restore, you will want to ensure that no `.kibana*` indices or aliases exist and then restore them. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-kibana-index/162806/3 "2019-01-31T23:54:33Z")
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