[role="xpack"]
[testenv="enterprise"]
[[searchable-snapshots-api-mount-snapshot]]
=== Mount snapshot API
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<titleabbrev>Mount snapshot</titleabbrev>
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experimental[]

Mount a snapshot as a snapshot backed index.

[[searchable-snapshots-api-mount-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`POST /_snapshot/<repository>/<snapshot>/_mount`

[[searchable-snapshots-api-mount-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

If the {es} {security-features} are enabled, you must have the
`manage` cluster privilege and the `manage` index privilege
for any included indices to use this API.
For more information, see <<security-privileges>>.

[[searchable-snapshots-api-mount-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}


[[searchable-snapshots-api-mount-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<repository>`::
(Required, string)
The name of the repository containing
the snapshot of the index to mount.

`<snapshot>`::
(Required, string)
The name of the snapshot of the index
to mount.

[[searchable-snapshots-api-mount-query-params]]
==== {api-query-parms-title}

include::{es-repo-dir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=master-timeout]

include::{es-repo-dir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=wait_for_completion]

[[searchable-snapshots-api-mount-request-body]]
==== {api-request-body-title}

`index`::
(Required, string)
Name of the index contained in the snapshot
whose data is to be mounted.

If no `renamed_index` is specified this name
will also be used to create the new index.

`renamed_index`::
+
--
(Optional, string)
Name of the index that will be created.
--

`index_settings`::
+
--
(Optional, object)
Settings that should be added to the index when it is mounted.
--

`ignore_index_settings`::
+
--
(Optional, array of strings)
Names of settings that should be removed from the index when it is mounted.
--

[[searchable-snapshots-api-mount-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}
////
[source,console]
-----------------------------------
PUT /my_docs
{
  "settings" : {
    "index.number_of_shards" : 1,
    "index.number_of_replicas" : 0
  }
}

PUT /_snapshot/my_repository/my_snapshot?wait_for_completion=true
{
  "include_global_state": false,
  "indices": "my_docs"
}

DELETE /my_docs
-----------------------------------
// TEST[setup:setup-repository]
////

Mounts the index `my_docs` from an existing snapshot named `my_snapshot` stored
in the `my_repository` as a new index `docs`:

[source,console]
--------------------------------------------------
POST /_snapshot/my_repository/my_snapshot/_mount?wait_for_completion=true
{
  "index": "my_docs", <1>
  "renamed_index": "docs", <2>
  "index_settings": { <3>
    "index.number_of_replicas": 0
  },
  "ignored_index_settings": [ "index.refresh_interval" ] <4>
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TEST[continued]

<1> The name of the index in the snapshot to mount
<2> The name of the index to create
<3> Any index settings to add to the new index
<4> List of indices to ignore when mounting the snapshotted index