Backup and Restore Elastic search

While elastic search is usually run as a cluster, for the sake of this tutorial I am showing the _snapshot and _restore tools.

mkdir  /mnt/backups/my_backup
chmod 777 -R /mnt/backups/

Must available on all nodes.


 curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup' -d '{
 "type": "fs",
 "settings": {
        "location": "/mnt/backups/my_backup",
   "compress": true
    }
}'






[root@centos-base mnt]# curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup?pretty'

{
  "my_backup" : {
    "type" : "fs",
    "settings" : {
      "compress" : "true",
      "location" : "/mnt/backups/my_backup"
    }
  }
}



 curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_snapshot?pretty'                                       {
  "my_backup" : {
    "type" : "fs",
    "settings" : {
      "compress" : "true",
      "location" : "/mnt/backups/my_backup"
    }
  }
}

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changing


 curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup' -d '{
 "type": "fs",
 "settings": {
  "location": "/mnt/backups/my_backup",
 "compress": true,
 "verify":true
	}	
	}'


 curl -XPUT "localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup/snapshot_`date | tr -d " " | tr -d ":" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' `?wait_for_completion=true&pretty"
 
 

 
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restoring

 mkdir -p /mnt/backups/my_backup
 chmod -R 777 /mnt/backups/

 
 Create repository
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 curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup' -d '{
 "type": "fs",
 "settings": {
  "location": "/mnt/backups/my_backup",
 "compress": true,
 "verify":true
	}	 
	}'

	
 restore from file system
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  curl -XPOST "localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup/snapshot_satapr25223454cest2015/_restore"

nJoy 😉