# Best practice to backup Elasticsearch indexes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-practice-to-backup-elasticsearch-indexes/109566>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 29, 2017, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-practice-to-backup-elasticsearch-indexes/109566 "2017-11-29T10:15:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Milad\_Hamid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/milad_hamid/32/24327_2.png) [@Milad\_Hamid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Milad_Hamid)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-practice-to-backup-elasticsearch-indexes/109566/1 "2017-11-29T10:15:49Z")

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How to make a backup of our Elasticsearch indexes to the disk to have archive of our logs?

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**Author:** ![Fram\_Souza](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/fram_souza/32/24833_2.png) [@Fram\_Souza](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Fram_Souza)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 10:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-practice-to-backup-elasticsearch-indexes/109566/2 "2017-11-29T10:29:46Z")

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Hello Milad,

You can backup using the snapshot ES, send for s3 (AWS), or using architecture HOT/WARM enabling best compression.

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.5/modules-snapshots.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.5/modules-snapshots.html)

> **[Elasticsearch Hot Warm Architecture](https://www.elastic.co/blog/hot-warm-architecture-in-elasticsearch-5-x)**
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> When using elasticsearch for larger time data analytics use cases, we recommend using time-based indices and a tiered architecture with 3 different types of nodes (Master, Hot-Node and Warm-Node), whi...

depending on your need for structure, the first option is the most viable. 😉

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**Author:** ![Milad\_Hamid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/milad_hamid/32/24327_2.png) [@Milad\_Hamid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Milad_Hamid)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 10:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-practice-to-backup-elasticsearch-indexes/109566/3 "2017-11-29T10:55:34Z")

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Hi @Fram_Souza  
Thanks for your quick reply and help. I will check the link

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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:** [December 27, 2017, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-practice-to-backup-elasticsearch-indexes/109566/4 "2017-12-27T10:56:17Z")

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