# Backups of Nodes?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backups-of-nodes/16741
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 1, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backups-of-nodes/16741 "2014-04-01T15:20:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@IronMike](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/IronMike)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backups-of-nodes/16741/1 "2014-04-01T15:20:57Z")
If I have a cluster of 3 Nodes, primaries and replicas distributed, and I
would like to back up the data on S3 for instance, do I have to backup all
3 nodes? Can someone elaborate?
What if all my nodes are in the same geographical zone, and the whole zone
is down?
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### Author:  [@Binh\_Ly\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Binh_Ly_2)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backups-of-nodes/16741/2 "2014-04-01T15:38:45Z")
If you are using ES 1.x, you can use the snapshot restore API. Quick
instructions:
>
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### Author:  [@IronMike](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/IronMike)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backups-of-nodes/16741/3 "2014-04-01T15:41:14Z")
I would like to understand how it works, is there any explanation on how
this works, the link seems like just a setup.
On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 11:38:45 AM UTC-4, Binh Ly wrote:
> If you are using ES 1.x, you can use the snapshot restore API. Quick
> instructions:
>
> [Elasticsearch S3 Snapshot/Restore ยท GitHub](https://gist.github.com/bly2k/9652596)
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### Author:  [@Binh\_Ly\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Binh_Ly_2)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backups-of-nodes/16741/4 "2014-04-01T15:58:18Z")
These might be useful:
> **[Introducing Snapshot & Restore
| Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/blog/introducing-snapshot-restore)**
>
> In the last year, we saw a tremendous increase in adoption of Elasticsearch by many companies. As more and more companies are using Elasticsearch as an integral part of their business, high availabili...
[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/modules-snapshots.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/modules-snapshots.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backups-of-nodes/16741/5 "2017-07-06T01:38:58Z")