# Data Archival in Elastic Search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-archival-in-elastic-search/304442>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [May 11, 2022, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-archival-in-elastic-search/304442 "2022-05-11T09:23:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Nikhil\_Ray5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c77e96/32.png) [@Nikhil\_Ray5](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nikhil_Ray5)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-archival-in-elastic-search/304442/1 "2022-05-11T09:23:36Z")

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Can you help me with how to **archive data in Elasticsearch**. that I don't know what is curator and data shrink. I am fresher to Elasticsearch. from where I have to start studying and what all things I have to do?

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**Author:** ![hunsw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hunsw/32/93637_2.png) [@hunsw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hunsw)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-archival-in-elastic-search/304442/2 "2022-05-11T13:34:33Z")

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Welcome! I'm not sure what you mean by archiving data in Elasticsearch... can you elaborate?

You can store data for any amount of time in Elasticsearch or you can use the built-in snapshot/restore feature to make backups to an external store like Amazon S3.

Curator is an tool that can do various jobs for you, some of those are better implemented in Elasticsearch itself now. (E.g. index lifecycle management.)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-archival-in-elastic-search/304442/3 "2022-05-11T23:18:28Z")

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Please look at [ILM](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-lifecycle-management.html) as a starting place for this.

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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:** [June 8, 2022, 11:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-archival-in-elastic-search/304442/4 "2022-06-08T23:19:28Z")

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