# Snapshot from higher to lower version
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-from-higher-to-lower-version/153780
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 24, 2018, 11:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-from-higher-to-lower-version/153780 "2018-10-24T11:21:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@sunilmchaudhari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunilmchaudhari)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2018, 11:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-from-higher-to-lower-version/153780/1 "2018-10-24T11:21:04Z")
Hi,
Due to some unavoidable situation, we have snapshot and restore from 6.3 to 5.6.6 version of elasticsearch.
Is that possible?
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-from-higher-to-lower-version/153780/2 "2018-10-24T11:23:04Z")
No, indices from newer versions of Elasticsearch can not be read by older versions. You may however be able to restore it in a 6.3 cluster and [reindex from remote](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/docs-reindex.html#reindex-from-remote).
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### Author:  [@sunilmchaudhari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunilmchaudhari)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-from-higher-to-lower-version/153780/3 "2018-10-24T12:26:06Z")
If I understand correctly,
I have ES6.3 on host1
I have ES5.6 on host2 -- Running cluster
So, I will make reindex.remote.whitelist: host1:9200 in elasticsearch.yml on Host2 (ES5.6)
And then KIbana5.6 will show the data from ES6.3?
IS that correct?
BR,
Sunil.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-from-higher-to-lower-version/153780/4 "2018-11-21T12:26:07Z")
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