# Snapshot and restore for a Cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-restore-for-a-cluster/299082>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** snapshot-and-restore\
**Created:** [March 8, 2022, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-restore-for-a-cluster/299082 "2022-03-08T11:59:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arpita11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Arpita11](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arpita11)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-restore-for-a-cluster/299082/1 "2022-03-08T11:59:16Z")

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I have a cluster with three nodes (1 master, 2 data and master eligible) in my primary region. I need to take a snapshot of this cluster.  
If primary region goes down, I will spin up one node in secondary region and restore the snapshot taken from primary.

Primary region cluster has 3 nodes whereas secondary region has 1 node. Will snapshot and restore work for this setup or I need to have a cluster with 3 nodes in the secondary region as well?

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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-restore-for-a-cluster/299082/2 "2022-03-08T12:22:00Z")

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Should be fine, as long as the one node is big enough to handle all the data.

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**Author:** ![Arpita11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Arpita11](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arpita11)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 7:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-restore-for-a-cluster/299082/3 "2022-03-09T07:08:40Z")

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Thank you for your inputs. This is really helpful.

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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:** [April 6, 2022, 7:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-restore-for-a-cluster/299082/4 "2022-04-06T07:09:20Z")

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