Hi All,
We have been using an elastic search cluster with 3 nodes , running on aws
machines , we have been using EBS for work and data directory of
elasticsearch . I was experimenting with backup using EBS snapshots , here
is what I did
1.) created a snapshot of one ebs volume (say, alpha)
2.) deleted the index
3.) shutdown the cluster
4.) unmounted the ebs volume on alpha (say /mnt/data )
5.) created a new volume from snapshot and mounted on alpha in the same
location (/mnt/data)
6.) restarted elastic search on one node only
cluster went to red state , all shards in unassigned
state
7.) restarted another node with blank data (/mnt/data ) directory
cluster went to yellow state , all shards STILL in
UNASSIGNED STATE
8.) manually allocated shards to node
recovered no documents , few kbs of data got restored
can anyone please help me debug this , what am I doing wrong , is there a
better way to do this ??
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Hi,
The recommend way to do this is to use ES's built-in snapshot/restore feature [1]. You would probably want to store your backups in S3 rather than EBS.
Also note that EBS does not always provide an acceptable level of performance for low-latency queries. If you use EBS you most likely will want to use provisioned IOPS.
Andrew
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On May 6, 2014, at 4:50 AM, Ankur Goel ankrugold@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
We have been using an Elasticsearch cluster with 3 nodes , running on aws machines , we have been using EBS for work and data directory of elasticsearch . I was experimenting with backup using EBS snapshots , here is what I did
1.) created a snapshot of one ebs volume (say, alpha)
2.) deleted the index
3.) shutdown the cluster
4.) unmounted the ebs volume on alpha (say /mnt/data )
5.) created a new volume from snapshot and mounted on alpha in the same location (/mnt/data)
6.) restarted Elasticsearch on one node only
cluster went to red state , all shards in unassigned state
7.) restarted another node with blank data (/mnt/data ) directory
cluster went to yellow state , all shards STILL in UNASSIGNED STATE
8.) manually allocated shards to node
recovered no documents , few kbs of data got restored 
can anyone please help me debug this , what am I doing wrong , is there a better way to do this ??
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