diff --git a/qa/scripts/perf/able/ableTest.sh b/qa/scripts/perf/able/ableTest.sh
index e305b8ec6..9eef6b7d2 100755
--- a/qa/scripts/perf/able/ableTest.sh
+++ b/qa/scripts/perf/able/ableTest.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ echo "using INGESTNODE0 ${INGESTNODE0}"
 DATANODE0=$(cat ./qa/tf/perf/able/outputs.json | jq -r '[.data_node_ips][0]["value"][0]')
 echo "using DATANODE0 ${DATANODE0}"
 
-
+# leaving this here because K6 is timing out and need to work out why
 # ssh -A -i ~/.ssh/gitlab-featurebase-ci.pem -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" ec2-user@${INGESTNODE0} "wget https://github.com/grafana/k6/releases/download/v0.36.0/k6-v0.36.0-linux-arm64.tar.gz"
 # ssh -A -i ~/.ssh/gitlab-featurebase-ci.pem -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" ec2-user@${INGESTNODE0} "tar -xvf k6-v0.36.0-linux-arm64.tar.gz"
 # ssh -A -i ~/.ssh/gitlab-featurebase-ci.pem -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" ec2-user@${INGESTNODE0} "mkdir bin"
@@ -23,11 +23,26 @@ then
 fi
 
 # copy restore data to ingest node
+echo "Copying restore data from S3"
+ssh -A -i ~/.ssh/gitlab-featurebase-ci.pem -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" ec2-user@${INGESTNODE0} "aws s3 cp s3://molecula-perf-storage/able/perf-able-seg.tar.xz /data/perf-able-seg.tar.xz" 
+if (( $? != 0 )) 
+then 
+    echo "Copy failed"
+    exit 1
+fi
 
-# run the restore
+# untar and restore data data
+echo "Untarring and restoring data"
+ssh -A -i ~/.ssh/gitlab-featurebase-ci.pem -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" ec2-user@${INGESTNODE0} "cd /data; tar -xf perf-able-seg.tar.xz; featurebase restore --host http://${DATANODE0}:10101 -s /data/backup" 
+if (( $? != 0 )) 
+then 
+    echo "Untarring and restoring failed"
+    exit 1
+fi
 
-# run smoke test
+# run test
 echo "Running perf test..."
+# leaving this here because K6 is timing out and need to work out why
 #ssh -A -i ~/.ssh/gitlab-featurebase-ci.pem -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" ec2-user@${INGESTNODE0} "/home/ec2-user/bin/k6 run -e DATANODE0=test.k6.io /data/highcardinalitygroupby.js" 
 ssh -A -i ~/.ssh/gitlab-featurebase-ci.pem -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" ec2-user@${INGESTNODE0} "curl ${DATANODE0}:10101/index/seg/query -X POST -o /data/response.json -d 'GroupBy(Rows(education_level), Rows(gender), Rows(political_party), Rows(domain))'" 
 ABLETESTRESULT=$?