Hi, *edit So we can copy the \elastic\data\nodes\ folder manually from one machine to another after shutting down, other sources confirm that this should work but is unsupproted. But this is a 1-off copy. Can we continuously do this? (put Elastic on SSD for speed and parse each indice till complet…

Answer: create a snapshot like Elastic and co tells you to, it's really quick and doesn't take much more time than an unsupported lazy copy-paste of the indice. Haven't tested the restore yet but no reason why it won't work. Thank you.

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safhw91 July 16, 2018, 9:05am 3

You, apparently

I understand it is nearly almost guaranteed to be unsupported. But I can live with that if in theory it should work.

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