# Elasticsearch and Snapshots?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-snapshots/243717>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 4, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-snapshots/243717 "2020-08-04T13:46:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-snapshots/243717/3 "2020-08-04T14:26:50Z")

</div>

what I have done is that mount xfs file system to all masters/data node

and then run a bash script to do snapshot every other day and remove week old snapshot

It is three step process  
mount fs  
register snapshot (elk knows where to save data, name etc..)  
run actual backup (data gets backed up here)

[https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-elasticsearch-snapshot-backup/173223](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-elasticsearch-snapshot-backup/173223)

---

_[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-snapshots/243717)._