# Backing up an ephemeral Elasticsearch installation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backing-up-an-ephemeral-elasticsearch-installation/146751>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 30, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backing-up-an-ephemeral-elasticsearch-installation/146751 "2018-08-30T17:00:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![dbwest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dbwest/32/32631_2.png) [@dbwest](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dbwest)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backing-up-an-ephemeral-elasticsearch-installation/146751/1 "2018-08-30T17:00:46Z")

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I have an installation of Elasticsearch without persistence running and I need to back it up so we can move it to a persistent setup.

What are safe ways to do this and keep the data in the ES database?

It is running and I want to avoid shutting it down.

It is running in a container and I think the entrypoint starts the server. So stopping the cluster my stop my pod and get rid of all my data...

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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:** [September 27, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backing-up-an-ephemeral-elasticsearch-installation/146751/2 "2018-09-27T17:00:53Z")

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Closed on September 27, 2018, 5:00pm UTC

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