# Restoring watchers

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restoring-watchers/316391>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** snapshot-and-restore\
**Created:** [October 12, 2022, 1:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restoring-watchers/316391 "2022-10-12T01:33:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Harper\_S1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/harper_s1/32/103430_2.png) [@Harper\_S1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Harper_S1)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 1:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restoring-watchers/316391/1 "2022-10-12T01:33:31Z")

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Hi Everyone,

I am trying to restore the watcher snapshot from ELK 7.10 version to 8.2 but it showing the following error.

 ![7.10 to 8.2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/f/3f21544c07a93564949b70e7bc52fa420809e2b8.png)

after this issue, I tried to setup 7.1 cluster to reindex these watchers but when I tried to restore this watcher snapshot , it is showing the following error.

```auto
{
    "error": {
        "root_cause": [
            {
                "type": "snapshot_restore_exception",
                "reason": "[elk_s3_backups:watchers/S3HwCtFATUiU1u5ff3qYSA] the snapshot was created with Elasticsearch version [7.10.0] which is higher than the version of this node [7.1.0]"
            }
        ],
        "type": "snapshot_restore_exception",
        "reason": "[elk_s3_backups:watchers/S3HwCtFATUiU1u5ff3qYSA] the snapshot was created with Elasticsearch version [7.10.0] which is higher than the version of this node [7.1.0]"
    },
    "status": 500
}

```

what I am missing here, could some one please help.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 10:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restoring-watchers/316391/2 "2022-10-13T22:59:44Z")

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Do you still have the 7.10 cluster around? If you do try running a merge on the Watcher index and then taking another snapshot of it, that should upgrade the lucene version of the index.

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**Author:** ![Harper\_S1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/harper_s1/32/103430_2.png) [@Harper\_S1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Harper_S1)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 4:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restoring-watchers/316391/3 "2022-10-19T04:30:11Z")

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sorry for the late response, I did the manual migration 🙂

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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 16, 2022, 4:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restoring-watchers/316391/4 "2022-11-16T04:30:13Z")

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