Curator snapshot

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
1

Hi ,

I am new to curator and trying to take a snapshot with curator. Below is the action file i used

actions: 1: action: snapshot options: repository: backup name: migsnap ignore_unavailable: True include_global_state: True partial: False wait_for_completion: True skip_repo_fs_check: False disable_action: False filters: -filtertype: age source: creation_date direction: older unit: days unit_count: 1

Getting the error as below:

D:\Elastic_local\curator-5.4.0-amd64>curator --config CONFIG.YML --dry-run ACTION_FILE.YML
2017-12-07 10:59:01,395 ERROR Schema error: extra keys not allowed @ data['action']
Configuration: Actions File: Location: root: Bad Value: "snapshot", extra keys not allowed @ data['action']. Check configuration file.

Please help

2

For big posts like this, please use the triple back ticks to enclose your pasted code:

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The error you provided suggests that your action file has some improper indentation. I have reformatted what is above into something that should work:

actions:
  1:
    action: snapshot
    options:
      repository: backup      
      name: migsnap
      ignore_unavailable: True
      include_global_state: True
      partial: False
      wait_for_completion: True
      skip_repo_fs_check: False
      disable_action: False
    filters:
      - filtertype: age
        source: creation_date
        direction: older
        unit: days
        unit_count: 1

Try this and see if it works as expected.

3

Cool. Worked like charm :slight_smile:

4

@theuntergeek Will dry run won't create a snapshot?

GET /_snapshot/backup/_all doesn't return any snapshot

but the Snapshot action completed without any error

5

--dry-run is a dry run, and will not perform the snapshot. It is a test flag to show you what it would do, without actually doing it.

6

Thank you.