# Ubuntu Elastic Search copy the data folder not working **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 29, 2017, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-elastic-search-copy-the-data-folder-not-working/87431 "2017-05-29T10:52:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PrabakarKaruppasamy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@PrabakarKaruppasamy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PrabakarKaruppasamy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-elastic-search-copy-the-data-folder-not-working/87431/1 "2017-05-29T10:52:19Z")
Hi am copying the entire data folder from windows elastic search server to Ubuntu elastic search server. But it is not working.. It is not showing the indexes in Kibana. Any help should be appreciated. Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Giuseppe\_Merlo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@Giuseppe\_Merlo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Giuseppe_Merlo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 10:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-elastic-search-copy-the-data-folder-not-working/87431/2 "2017-05-29T10:59:12Z")
Do you want to make an indexes redirect? ---
**Author:** ![PrabakarKaruppasamy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@PrabakarKaruppasamy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PrabakarKaruppasamy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-elastic-search-copy-the-data-folder-not-working/87431/3 "2017-05-29T11:02:09Z")
Noo. I want to make all the data available from X server to Y server. Example dashbaord, Metric etc ---
**Author:** ![Giuseppe\_Merlo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@Giuseppe\_Merlo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Giuseppe_Merlo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 11:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-elastic-search-copy-the-data-folder-not-working/87431/4 "2017-05-29T11:06:18Z")
You can use Server X to store your ElasticSearch data and Server Y to visualize them by Kibi/Kibana Visualization, using Server X ip easily. However, how Kibana looks like after copying? ---
**Author:** ![PrabakarKaruppasamy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@PrabakarKaruppasamy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PrabakarKaruppasamy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 11:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-elastic-search-copy-the-data-folder-not-working/87431/5 "2017-05-29T11:12:46Z")
The think is that its working fine in Windows environment. We don't want to rely on two servers it is not pick up the data folder in Ubuntu environment. We have copied the data folder into /usr/share/elasticsearch similar like windows C:\elasticsearch. In Ubuntu nodes are newly created inside the /var/lib/elasticsearch. ---
**Author:** ![Giuseppe\_Merlo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@Giuseppe\_Merlo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Giuseppe_Merlo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-elastic-search-copy-the-data-folder-not-working/87431/6 "2017-05-29T11:17:20Z")
I use Ubuntu and it's works very well. Do you install ES as a service? ---
**Author:** ![PrabakarKaruppasamy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@PrabakarKaruppasamy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PrabakarKaruppasamy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-elastic-search-copy-the-data-folder-not-working/87431/7 "2017-05-29T11:19:35Z")
> [@Giuseppe\_Merlo](#): > > install Yes We installed ES as a service ---
**Author:** ![PrabakarKaruppasamy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@PrabakarKaruppasamy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PrabakarKaruppasamy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-elastic-search-copy-the-data-folder-not-working/87431/8 "2017-05-29T11:22:29Z")
Yes We installed ES as a service ---
**Author:** ![Giuseppe\_Merlo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@Giuseppe\_Merlo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Giuseppe_Merlo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-elastic-search-copy-the-data-folder-not-working/87431/9 "2017-05-29T11:33:47Z")
Do you restart ES after copying? How does Kibana look like? ---
**Author:** ![PrabakarKaruppasamy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@PrabakarKaruppasamy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PrabakarKaruppasamy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-elastic-search-copy-the-data-folder-not-working/87431/10 "2017-05-29T11:51:32Z")
Yes but it is newly created the node inside the /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes . It is not pick the folder under the /usr/share/elasticsearch/data ---
**Author:** ![Giuseppe\_Merlo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@Giuseppe\_Merlo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Giuseppe_Merlo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-elastic-search-copy-the-data-folder-not-working/87431/11 "2017-05-29T12:04:53Z")
Mmm.. You could try to run ES not as a service and see what happens. If it can help you, my /usr/share/elasticsearch/ doesn't have any data directory, but i can put and get indexes ---
**Author:** ![Giuseppe\_Merlo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@Giuseppe\_Merlo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Giuseppe_Merlo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-elastic-search-copy-the-data-folder-not-working/87431/12 "2017-05-29T12:06:45Z")
Maybe this can help you: > ---
**Author:** ![PrabakarKaruppasamy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@PrabakarKaruppasamy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PrabakarKaruppasamy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-elastic-search-copy-the-data-folder-not-working/87431/13 "2017-05-29T12:23:00Z")
Oh..Let me check that way and get back you if any.. Thanks a lot ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-elastic-search-copy-the-data-folder-not-working/87431/14 "2017-06-26T12:23:01Z")
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