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title: "Migrating the index from Drupal to Acquia Search powered by SearchStax"
date: "2025-02-12T11:23:30+00:00"
summary: "Learn how to migrate your Drupal index to Acquia Search powered by SearchStax with our step-by-step guide and visual instructions."
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1.  Click **Create copy** to create a copy of the existing index that you want to migrate. 

![Interface for copying search indexes, showing index names, servers, statuses, and an option to create a copy of the index.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/40cee456-0e92-414b-b81a-3599f46771d5/web/search-searchstax_copy-search-indexes.png?w=1090&itok=v4lmv1HK)

2.  Select the copy, and click **Index now** to reindex the data.

![The SearchStax index configuration, showing indexing status, datasource, server details, and options to start indexing.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/5adc4285-2dcd-472f-b823-b4d443b7c27a/web/search-searchstax_reindexing-data.png?w=1090&itok=P4c32ica)

![A "Search API" configuration page showing server and index details, with options to add servers or indexes.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/51478945-9ee1-4626-9809-3040ca63127b/web/search-searchstax_servers-indexes.png?w=1090&itok=6HenwCOk)

The **Index** **status** progress bar indicates the completion status along with the number of items that are indexed.

The system displays the data in Site Search app’s search preview after approximately 10 minutes.

![A search preview interface displaying a list of recipes, with titles, types, IDs, and elevation status.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/30a436d4-27a9-4390-986b-0efc711a489d/web/search-searchstax_search-preview.png?w=1090&itok=8d3q1R42)

Next step
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[Migrate the views from Drupal to Acquia Search powered by SearchStax](/acquia-cloud-platform/migrating-views-drupal-acquia-search-powered-searchstax "Migrating the views from Drupal to Acquia Search powered by SearchStax")