# Snapshot specific index and specific pattern
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-specific-index-and-specific-pattern/173894
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 26, 2019, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-specific-index-and-specific-pattern/173894 "2019-03-26T09:28:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@michbsd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michbsd)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2019, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-specific-index-and-specific-pattern/173894/1 "2019-03-26T09:28:55Z")
Hi,
I have a logstash index - and I would like to snapshot only this index (which I can already do) - however I would like to only snapshot data in the image which has e.g. source:/var/log/messages
My logstash indices contains a lot of different data - and I would like to snapshot only some specific elements from the index - that I can then restore on another ES cluster and work with.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2019, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-specific-index-and-specific-pattern/173894/2 "2019-03-26T10:47:33Z")
This is not possible, because a snapshot simply takes a copy of the on-disk data and stores it in a repository. Snapshots are for backup, i.e., so you can restore a copy of an index later. It doesn't really make sense to snapshot the results of a search.
You could use [reindex](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-reindex.html) to create an index containing only the data you want and then take a snapshot of just that index.
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### Author:  [@michbsd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michbsd)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2019, 11:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-specific-index-and-specific-pattern/173894/3 "2019-03-26T11:53:26Z")
Thank you - will try
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2019, 11:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-specific-index-and-specific-pattern/173894/4 "2019-04-23T11:53:30Z")
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