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Expand Up @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ back up a cluster is by using the snapshot and restore functionality.
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=== Version compatibility

IMPORTANT: Version compatibility refers to the underlying Lucene index compatibility. Follow the {ref}/set-upgrade.html[upgrade Elasticsearch documentation] when migrating between versions.

A snapshot contains a copy of the on-disk data structures that make up an
index. This means that snapshots can only be restored to versions of
Elasticsearch that can read the indices:
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