# Setting up replica shards
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-up-replica-shards/251551
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 9, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-up-replica-shards/251551 "2020-10-09T10:28:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@djuwa4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/djuwa4)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-up-replica-shards/251551/1 "2020-10-09T10:28:56Z")
How can I increase the number of shard replicas? I have five nodes in the cluster, I want each node to have a copy of each shards.
I found this option on the net, is it correct?
```auto
curl -X PUT http://localhost:9200/_template/default -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"index_patterns": ["*"],"order": -1,"settings": {"number_of_shards": "1","number_of_replicas": "5"}}'
```
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### Author:  [@Wolfram\_Haussig](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wolfram_Haussig)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2020, 10:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-up-replica-shards/251551/2 "2020-10-09T10:35:28Z")
Hello Andrew,
It is nearly correct: As the primary shard is stored on a node too I think you want to have 4 replicas. This only affects newly created indexes.
To change existing indexes have a look [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-update-settings.html).
Best regards
Wolfram
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### Author:  [@djuwa4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/djuwa4)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-up-replica-shards/251551/3 "2020-10-09T10:55:13Z")
Thank you very much!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-up-replica-shards/251551/4 "2020-11-06T10:55:23Z")
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