# Snapshot-restore red indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-restore-red-indices/174723>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 1, 2019, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-restore-red-indices/174723 "2019-04-01T07:15:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![shiveshabhishek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shiveshabhishek/32/34533_2.png) [@shiveshabhishek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shiveshabhishek)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-restore-red-indices/174723/1 "2019-04-01T07:15:46Z")

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Hey, is it okay to take a snapshot during restore process ? What I found was, I took snapshot\_4 earlier. While taking snapshot\_5, I restored my snapshot\_4 to another cluster . Some of the indices get restored as expected. But some went in red state. What possibly could be the cause for this?

Note: I am using the same repository all over this scenario and elasticsearch v 6.4.0

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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:** [April 1, 2019, 7:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-restore-red-indices/174723/2 "2019-04-01T07:57:34Z")

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> [@shiveshabhishek](#):
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> is it okay to take a snapshot during restore process

Yes, it's ok to take a snapshot in one cluster while restoring in another cluster.

> [@shiveshabhishek](#):
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> What possibly could be the cause for this?

The [allocation explain API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cluster-allocation-explain.html) should help to answer this.

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**Author:** ![shiveshabhishek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shiveshabhishek/32/34533_2.png) [@shiveshabhishek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shiveshabhishek)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-restore-red-indices/174723/3 "2019-04-01T09:55:13Z")

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Thanks for the reply. 😄

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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 29, 2019, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-restore-red-indices/174723/4 "2019-04-29T10:02:47Z")

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