Elasticsearch Backup: Snapshot and Restore on AWS S3
9 min readOct 18, 2016
An updated version is available here, it is an updated version that covers the same topic but for the latest Elasticsearch versions.
Elasticsearch Snapshot & Restore
just in case you start reading this tutorial/article… beware … It is very long… the idea is to explain how to do a snapshot and restore for Elasticsearch on AWS S3. The article is divided into these sections :
- ES Repositories
- ES cloud-aws plugin
- AWS S3 IAM Role
- AWS S3 User Policy
- ES setup backup Repository with AWS IAM ROLE
- ES setup backup Repository with AWS User
- ES create a snapshot
- ES restore a snapshot
- ES restore a snapshot on different cluster
have a nice read!
Elasticsearch has a smart solution to backup single indices or entire clusters to remote shared filesystem or S3 or HDFS. The snapshot ES creates is not…