# Snapshot restore error "unsupported snapshot state"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-restore-error-unsupported-snapshot-state/64007>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 26, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-restore-error-unsupported-snapshot-state/64007 "2016-10-26T13:23:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![bigfootxxl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@bigfootxxl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bigfootxxl)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-restore-error-unsupported-snapshot-state/64007/1 "2016-10-26T13:23:22Z")

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Hi.  
I want to migrate 1TB of data to a new cluster but the snapshot/restore takes forever so I wanted to migrate just one index for testing purposes:  
curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/\_snapshot/my\_backup/snapshot\_3?pretty' -d'  
{ "indices": "logstash-2012.11.01", "ignore\_unavailable": true, "include\_global\_state": false}'

and want to restore it on another cluster but am getting  
{"error":"SnapshotRestoreException[[my\_backup:snapshot\_3] unsupported snapshot state [FAILED]]","status":500}

what am I doing wrong?

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-restore-error-unsupported-snapshot-state/64007/2 "2017-07-05T22:09:26Z")

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