# Back up of Elastic Serach Data

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/back-up-of-elastic-serach-data/102438>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 2, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/back-up-of-elastic-serach-data/102438 "2017-10-02T13:39:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![paul1243](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e99b99/32.png) [@paul1243](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paul1243)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/back-up-of-elastic-serach-data/102438/1 "2017-10-02T13:39:34Z")

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Hi -

My ES is hosted on a Virtual Machine, receiving data from multiple nodes, Disk is reaching to the maximum with the data (indices).  
I'd like to take the backup of last 30 days of data and purge it and move the backup data to a different machine  
Is there any way to do this. Please let me know. Thanks !

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**Author:** ![theuntergeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theuntergeek/32/44961_2.png) [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/back-up-of-elastic-serach-data/102438/2 "2017-10-02T15:58:16Z")

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The appropriate way to do so is with the [Snapshot and Restore APIs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/modules-snapshots.html#modules-snapshots).

If you're managing time-series data, then [Elasticsearch Curator](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/5.2/index.html) offers [snapshot](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/5.2/snapshot.html) and [restore](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/5.2/restore.html) actions to accomplish the same more easily.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/back-up-of-elastic-serach-data/102438/3 "2017-10-30T15:58:21Z")

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