Custom indices Names on file storage

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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Hi, I have been testing an ELK setup and are parsing a lot of cisco syslog into indices on a daily basis. To keep order on historic data I will move closed indices to a backup disk. Is it possible to get elasticsearch to name the indices folders on the disk as the same name as it shows up in kibana or the elasticsearch pattern dictates. Right now the indices can be found using the rest API using regular names, but the actual data is stored in ambiguous named folders.

Hopefully this makes sense.
but basically I want to control the actual names of the actual folders that are stored on an elasticsearch node.

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This is not a good idea. You should be using the snapshot API to do this. Moving an index folder, even from a single node, still messes with the cluster metadata. If you have multiple nodes, you can really start to mess things up.

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