# What is the best way to transfer data when you change your cluster name?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-transfer-data-when-you-change-your-cluster-name/24506>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 28, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-transfer-data-when-you-change-your-cluster-name/24506 "2015-06-28T15:04:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![GordonM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@GordonM](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GordonM)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-transfer-data-when-you-change-your-cluster-name/24506/5 "2015-06-29T00:15:16Z")

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I will have to try again tomorrow. I think it worked for me once, too, but tried it again and was unsuccessful so I thought just copying and pasting might be unreliable. I think the second time I had incoming logs/documents, while the first time I had turned off incoming logs/documents. My guess was that incoming documents were causing elasticsearch to auto-create cluster information that was not replaced when I copied over previous cluster's node folder.

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