# What would be the best method to copy data from elasticsearch 2.4 to 6.4?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-the-best-method-to-copy-data-from-elasticsearch-2-4-to-6-4/178527>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 25, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-the-best-method-to-copy-data-from-elasticsearch-2-4-to-6-4/178527 "2019-04-25T18:57:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![joshuaclark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@joshuaclark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joshuaclark)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-the-best-method-to-copy-data-from-elasticsearch-2-4-to-6-4/178527/1 "2019-04-25T18:57:23Z")

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Hi,  
We have an application that uses elasticsearch 2.4 and I would like to be able to ship that to our elasticsearch 6.4 to be able to visualize it with our Kibana. What would be the best method to do that?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-the-best-method-to-copy-data-from-elasticsearch-2-4-to-6-4/178527/2 "2019-04-25T19:09:33Z")

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I'd probably use reindex from remote feature.

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**Author:** ![joshuaclark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@joshuaclark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joshuaclark)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-the-best-method-to-copy-data-from-elasticsearch-2-4-to-6-4/178527/3 "2019-04-25T19:13:04Z")

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those indices would still be getting updated is there a way to set that to run on an hourly/daily basis?

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**Author:** ![joshuaclark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@joshuaclark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joshuaclark)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-the-best-method-to-copy-data-from-elasticsearch-2-4-to-6-4/178527/4 "2019-04-25T19:16:58Z")

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Sorry I can just script it to run the curl command I guess.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-the-best-method-to-copy-data-from-elasticsearch-2-4-to-6-4/178527/5 "2019-04-25T19:34:23Z")

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Well. If you have a way to query the changes that could be doable.  
Otherwise you will have to reindex the whole everytime.

But you'd better update your application to directly write in the new cluster.

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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:** [May 23, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-the-best-method-to-copy-data-from-elasticsearch-2-4-to-6-4/178527/6 "2019-05-23T19:34:37Z")

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