# Snapshot a single node
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-a-single-node/19972
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 26, 2014, 12:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-a-single-node/19972 "2014-09-26T00:59:32Z")
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### Author:  [@catwallader](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/catwallader)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2014, 12:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-a-single-node/19972/1 "2014-09-26T00:59:32Z")
I'm new to the Elasticseach snapshot API. For the documentation I've read,
it seems that you can either snapshot your entire cluster or snapshot
specific indices. Is it possible to snapshot and restore to a single node?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-a-single-node/19972/2 "2014-09-26T01:00:52Z")
Not unless it's a single node cluster 🙂
Regards,
Mark Walkom
Infrastructure Engineer
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On 26 September 2014 10:59, vic hargrave [vichargrave@gmail.com](mailto:vichargrave@gmail.com) wrote:
> I'm new to the Elasticseach snapshot API. For the documentation I've read,
> it seems that you can either snapshot your entire cluster or snapshot
> specific indices. Is it possible to snapshot and restore to a single node?
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### Author:  [@catwallader](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/catwallader)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-a-single-node/19972/3 "2014-09-26T01:06:53Z")
Ok fair enough. I have a situation where I want to replace some failing
disks on a node, so I want to back up the data on that node only then
replace the disks and restore that data from that node. Would I be able to
just tar up the directory containing the data for that node then unpack
onto the new disk?
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Mark Walkom [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com)
wrote:
> Not unless it's a single node cluster 🙂
>
> Regards,
> Mark Walkom
>
> Infrastructure Engineer
> Campaign Monitor
> email: [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com)
> web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com)
>
> On 26 September 2014 10:59, vic hargrave [vichargrave@gmail.com](mailto:vichargrave@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > I'm new to the Elasticseach snapshot API. For the documentation I've
> > read, it seems that you can either snapshot your entire cluster or snapshot
> > specific indices. Is it possible to snapshot and restore to a single node?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-a-single-node/19972/4 "2014-09-26T01:27:19Z")
If you are in a multi-node cluster with replicas then just shutdown the
node and the others will recover fine thanks to the replicas.
Regards,
Mark Walkom
Infrastructure Engineer
Campaign Monitor
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web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com)
On 26 September 2014 11:06, Vic Hargrave [vichargrave@gmail.com](mailto:vichargrave@gmail.com) wrote:
> Ok fair enough. I have a situation where I want to replace some failing
> disks on a node, so I want to back up the data on that node only then
> replace the disks and restore that data from that node. Would I be able to
> just tar up the directory containing the data for that node then unpack
> onto the new disk?
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Mark Walkom [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com)
> wrote:
>
> > Not unless it's a single node cluster 🙂
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mark Walkom
> >
> > Infrastructure Engineer
> > Campaign Monitor
> > email: [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com)
> > web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com)
> >
> > On 26 September 2014 10:59, vic hargrave [vichargrave@gmail.com](mailto:vichargrave@gmail.com) wrote:
> >
> > > I'm new to the Elasticseach snapshot API. For the documentation I've
> > > read, it seems that you can either snapshot your entire cluster or snapshot
> > > specific indices. Is it possible to snapshot and restore to a single node?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-a-single-node/19972/5 "2017-07-06T00:59:49Z")